Daguerreotypes, and other essays

書誌事項

Daguerreotypes, and other essays

Isak Dinesen [i.e. K. Blixen] ; foreword by Hannah Arendt ; translations from the Danish in this volume are by P. M. Mitchell and W. D. Paden

University of Chicago Press, 1979

タイトル別名

Essays

統一タイトル

Essays

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注記

Translation of Essays

Includes bibliographical references

収録内容

  • On mottoes of my life
  • Daguerreotypes
  • Oration at a bonfire, fourteen years late
  • Letters from a land at war
  • Reunion with England
  • On orthography
  • H. C. Branner, The riding master
  • Rungstedlund, a radio address

内容説明・目次

内容説明

"Isak Dinesen . . . had an original approach to life that permeated all her work. She loved storytelling, with the result that most of her essays are quasi-narratives, which proceed not from major to minor premise but from one anecdote to another as the way of making concrete whatever idea she is considering. Her work is a delight and at times a marvel." "The New Yorker" "Through these daguerreotypes we begin to understand other periods, the renunciations of World War I, the purpose of houses and mansions, of ritual ceremonials, such as tatooing. We are given a fresh and vivid view of the women's movement . . . which urges that what our 'small society' needs beyond human beings who have demonstrated what they can "do," is people who "are." 'Indeed, our own time, ' she wrote in 1953, 'can be said to need a revision from "doing" to "being."' She demonstrated it in her own work and craft, with courage and with dignity. This collection is as real as a gallery of old daguerreotypes, moving and unfaded. The work, as Hannah Arendt says, of a wise woman." Robert Kirsch, "Los Angeles Times " "These essays . . . have the flavor of good conversation: humorous, easy, personal but not oppressive, the distillation of reading, thought, and experience. Their subjects are of surprisingly current interest. We need make no concessions to the past, need not set our watches back to 'historical.' Isak Dinesen was not a faddish thinker. . . . 'In history it is always the human element that has a chance for eternal life, ' Dinesen remarks, and she gives these essays their chance." Penelope Mesic, "Chicago" "

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA20710545
  • ISBN
    • 0226153053
  • LCCN
    78027543
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 原本言語コード
    dan
  • 出版地
    Chicago
  • ページ数/冊数
    xxv, 229 p.
  • 大きさ
    22 cm
  • 分類
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