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Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller

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Audible.com Release Date: August 1, 2008

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The main problem with the book is that Karen ( aka Isak, Tania, Tanne, etc.) is not particularly likeable. She may have been a charming and captivating storyteller; however, she was beset with personal (low self esteem) and physical ( syphilis) problems. Thurman paints Dinesen as needy with Finch Hatton but strong and demanding with her farm ( e.g. fair with her servants,which was unusual for the time). Dinesen and Denys Finch Hatton shared, at least, one childish trait: They both wanted what they wanted and would hardly compromise. This may have been the main downfall of their love affair.Thurman dissects Dinesen's life diligently but not in a pedantic way- in an interesting way. We find out a lot about Isak's Father ( died young) and how he influenced her, a lot about her emotionally withholding Mother, a lot about the times ( early 1900s) in Denmark, a lot about the semi-aristocracy. Isak's world was on the brink of the modern age and so was she--a modern woman- she thought- who still had one foot in 18th century tales of her childhood and, thus, was affected by this disappearing life-style, even in Africa. The colonial life was a holdover from an earlier era. Actually, this way of living was perfect for Dinesen who loved the male- oriented life and the servant- oriented household which allowed her to assert her femaleness, her differentness, her uniqueness.Thurman tells us more and more about the people in Dinesen's long life, more about Dinesen's writings and her public persona as she gains fame worldwide and as she ages. She created herself more as a character as she lived longer. Marketed herself well as an odd person and crone to fit in with her perceived old storyteller image,which she cultivated .This biography did deserve the National Book Award, which it garnered--- excellent work on Thurman's part.

Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller, by Judith Thurman. This literary study, winner of the National Book Award, is, apparently, still the only comprehensive biography of Isak Dinesen, one of the greatest storytellers of our time. Dinesen, who was twice nominated for the Nobel prize, is the author of the compelling memoir, Out of Africa. That terse work established Dinesen as a major twentieth-century writer, was made into the beloved film of the same name by Sydney Pollack. The film, as well as acknowledging that it is based on Dinesen’s memoir, credits Thurman’s biography of the artist as well. Therefore, I finally decided to buy it.Thurman, critic and biographer, won the National Book Award, two foreign literary prizes for her work. The author of Cleopatra's Nose, and Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette, she is a staff writer at The New Yorker, lives in New York City.I have greatly admired Dinesen over the years, read much of her work, though, unfortunately, now so long ago that I can’t recall which work I read. Unhappily, Thurman’s book sure doesn’t make me want to rush right out and read more Dinesen, perhaps the most damning criticism of any I might level at the biographer’s work. In life and in art, Dinesen reserved her greatest praise for that which was light. Thurman’s book is elephantine, long and heavy, with strong literary emphasis, lots of exegeses of all the author’s work. At the opening of Thurman’s bio, we must struggle through more than 90 pages on the Danish author’s ancestors, family, family life, childhood writings, exposition thereof. The monumental tome goes on for 200 more pages after the Danish author leaves Africa. I think many of Dinesen’s fans would have preferred to meet her on the new African train that took her to her new coffee plantation. In fact, the biographer seems to want to frustrate those of us normal readers who are only really interested in the esteemed author’s Out of Africa period.Mind you, Thurman does give us a little more information about the author’s African days than the near-legendary author does herself. Thurman tells us of the formation of the famous Muthaiga Club, founded by Berkeley Cole, who was to become Dinesen’s good friend. It opened the week Karen Blixen (the author’s actual legal name) arrived. “ It was housed in a mansion of pink stucco and had a golf course, tennis courts, a croquet lawn, stabling for polo ponies, two limousines with drivers, and a chef from Goa. The roster of members read like a sampler of Debrett’s Peerage, and Baron Blixon [Karen’s husband at the time] immediately put down his name. Such a place in a raw country glowed literally and figuratively in the night, stirring the imagination of outsiders. During the twenties Muthaiga came to be called “The Moulin Rouge of Africa,” and it had a number of famous romances and even a shooting or two associated with its name. A handful of titled adulterers, like the Earl of Erroll, the Countess de Janze, and Lady Idina Sackville, who had five husbands, did much to promote its reputation.” I’ve posted a picture of the club below.Thurman also mentions the Danish woman’s often-cited outdoor millstone table, at which many meals and decisions were taken—I’ve also attached a picture of myself at that table below . And Thurman gives us the menu of the meal Tania Blixen, as she was then known, triumphantly served the British Prince of Wales on a visit. “Clear soup, Mombasa turbot served with hollandaise, ham poached in champagne, partridges with peas—the birds brought by the Masai—a pasta with cream and truffles, greens, pearl onions and tomato salad, wild mushroom croustades, a savarin, strawberries and grenadines from the garden.” All this prepared by her native chef Kamante, in a kitchen I have seen, small, primitive, without electricity or running water.Furthermore, Thurman does tell us that one of the only two other women Tania Blixen (as her friends then called her) was Beryl Markham, "who trained Lord Delamere’s racehorses. In the late twenties she began taking flying lessons and would become the first woman mail pilot, the first woman to attempt a solo east-to-west crossing of the Atlantic, and one of the first pilots to use a plane for spotting game. In this capacity, she worked with Bror [ Tania’s ex husband at the time] and Denys [ so famously Tania’s lover], who figure prominently and affectionately in her[Markham’s] memoir, West with the Night. Beryl Markham was then twenty-four…. She was tall, broad-shouldered, and fair, resembling Greta Garbo both in her features and in a restless, pantherine grace of movement. Her private life was a subject of endless gossip…. Denys was then, or had just, or would soon – depending upon one’s informant—have a ‘little walk-out’ with her. Tania could not have been blind to her allure, and it speaks highly for her dedication as a hostess – and her sense of fair play generally—that she still invited her to dinner, placed her beside Denys, and later reported to her mother that Beryl had ‘looked ravishing.’”This is more than Dinesen ever tells the reader about Markham in her own book: she mentions her not at all. And Thurman probably does tell the reader more about Denys Finch Hatton, the noble love of Tania’s life, than Tania ever does in her book. But these little gems I have just given you are BURIED in Thurman’s elephantine nearly 500 page book. So. How patient are you?

This is very comprehensive and well written. It is "academic" in nature and does thoroughly analyze her works. At times, it got somewhat too detailed for me, at least regarding her writing. But, I am very glad that I read it! It expanded my knowledge of: the time period of her life (For example, it increased my understanding of the social, political, and economical tapestry of both Africa and Europe ); literature in general; and the regions that she lived in. I truly feel it is a text that should be read by all those seeking to be "well-read."

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