Last tales

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These twelve tales, the last that Isak Dinesen wrote before her death in 1962, are 'Tike no other tales. They range from country to country, the North to the South-from point to point in time, from here to there in reality. There are tales joined onto other tales, tales inlaid in tales, and one long, disturbingly beautiful, unfinished Gothic tale called The Caryatids: " -The New York Times
"This collection .is a reminder that Isak Dinesen is one of the finest and most singular artists of our timer -The Atlantic
"Sometimes, reading these classic exciting measures, one is reminded of some of the moods of Thomas Mann; sometimes one says, Gothic; or Biblical; or the Baghdad Bazaar. Perhaps all these share certain things in common: true mystery, true tale-telling, a truly lapidary permanence. These stories are strong stuff. Dive beyond the first breakers of a rolHng prose—if these distress you—and let the deeper waves take you over like a strong drug: you will be... Tovább

Fülszöveg

literature
These twelve tales, the last that Isak Dinesen wrote before her death in 1962, are 'Tike no other tales. They range from country to country, the North to the South-from point to point in time, from here to there in reality. There are tales joined onto other tales, tales inlaid in tales, and one long, disturbingly beautiful, unfinished Gothic tale called The Caryatids: " -The New York Times
"This collection .is a reminder that Isak Dinesen is one of the finest and most singular artists of our timer -The Atlantic
"Sometimes, reading these classic exciting measures, one is reminded of some of the moods of Thomas Mann; sometimes one says, Gothic; or Biblical; or the Baghdad Bazaar. Perhaps all these share certain things in common: true mystery, true tale-telling, a truly lapidary permanence. These stories are strong stuff. Dive beyond the first breakers of a rolHng prose—if these distress you—and let the deeper waves take you over like a strong drug: you will be rewarded:' -The Saturday Review
"The dozen stories in this new collection may be the Hterary testament of one of the most skilled but least proHfic writers of the 20th century .The characters are large, heroic figures and they are brought to earth with a resounding crash. Such men and women are rare in contemporary fiction; the art to make them live vitally .as author Dinesen does is rarer still" —Time Vissza