Out of Africa

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Titel
Out of Africa
Verfasserangabe
Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen)
Medienart
Sprache
Person
Reihe
Auflage
15. Aufl.
Verlag
Ort
London
Jahr
Umfang
329 S.
ISBN13
978-0-14-000913-2
Fußnote
Jenseits von Afrika
Schlagwort
Annotation
Karen Blixen's "Out of Africa" is the lyrical and luminous memoir of Kenya: "I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills . . . Up in this high air you breathed easily . . . you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be." From the moment Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya in 1914 to manage a coffee plantation, her heart belonged to Africa. Drawn to the intense colours and ravishing landscapes, Blixen spent her happiest years on the farm, and her experiences and friendships with the people around her are vividly recalled in these memoirs. "Out of Africa" is the story of a remarkable and unconventional woman, and of a way of life that has vanished for ever. Karen Blixen was born in Rungsted, Denmark, in 1885. After studying art at Copenhagen, Paris and Rome, she married her cousin, Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke, in 1914. Together they managed a coffee plantation in Kenya until they divorced in 1925. She continued on the farm until a collapse in the coffee market forced her back to Rungsted in 1931. Although she had written occasional contributions to Danish periodicals since 1905 (under the nom de plume of Osceola), her real debut took place in 1934 with the publication of "Seven Gothic Tales", written in English under the pen name, Isak Dinesen. Out of Africa (1937) is an autobiographical account of the years she spent in Kenya.
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