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3.6 AVERAGE
3.6 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
mysterious
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A collection of strange stories. Lots of people doing weird things, making weird choices. I enjoyed some, but several felt bland and uninteresting.
Første møde med Karen Blixen, og hun leverer en blandet fornøjelse synes jeg. Man kan ikke fornægte at hun er en dygtig forfatter, der er nogle formuleringer og især nogle filosofiske billeder som er uovertrufne, men langt hen af vejen bliver det en smule ensformigt og langtrukkent til min smag. Nogle gange bliver det decideret kedeligt.
Vinter-eventyr består af 11 noveller, der alle, mere eller mindre tydeligt, har skæbnen som tema og omdrejningspunkt.
Som så ofte før er der nogle af novellerne som jeg bedre kunne lide end andre. Dem jeg vil fremhæve er:
Skibsdrengens Fortælling
Heloise
Det drømmende Barn
Alkmene
En opbyggelig Historie
Til sidst vil jeg også fremhæve historien "Sorg-Agre", som for mig var bogens højdepunkt, og et lille mesterværk i sin egen ret. I historien formår Karen Blixen at skiltre samfundets stærkeste og svageste i deres forbindelse til hinanden på godt og ondt. Hun trækker uventet paralleller til Egyptens pyramider og gør det på en utroligt rørende måde. Så stærk en historie.
Jeg vil gerne læse mere Blixen, særligt flere tidlige noveller skrevet under pseudonymet Isak Dinesen. Jeg vil lede efter "Syv fantastiske fortællinger".
Vinter-eventyr består af 11 noveller, der alle, mere eller mindre tydeligt, har skæbnen som tema og omdrejningspunkt.
Som så ofte før er der nogle af novellerne som jeg bedre kunne lide end andre. Dem jeg vil fremhæve er:
Skibsdrengens Fortælling
Heloise
Det drømmende Barn
Alkmene
En opbyggelig Historie
Til sidst vil jeg også fremhæve historien "Sorg-Agre", som for mig var bogens højdepunkt, og et lille mesterværk i sin egen ret. I historien formår Karen Blixen at skiltre samfundets stærkeste og svageste i deres forbindelse til hinanden på godt og ondt. Hun trækker uventet paralleller til Egyptens pyramider og gør det på en utroligt rørende måde. Så stærk en historie.
Jeg vil gerne læse mere Blixen, særligt flere tidlige noveller skrevet under pseudonymet Isak Dinesen. Jeg vil lede efter "Syv fantastiske fortællinger".
Amor no està malament, però no mata. Potser no era un bon moment per llegir aquest tipus de contes i els vaig trobar fred i llunyants.
reflective
slow-paced
I just couldn't get into this collection, and I wasn't finished by the time my book club met to discuss it. That said, everyone else at the meeting seemed to enjoy it, and the discussion was good enough that I finished the little bit I had left. I still didn't really see the appeal. There are some good stories in this collection - and lots of stories within stories - but there was something about the narration that I felt kept me at arm's length from the action. There was a sort of detached philosophical bent to things, I guess, and that just doesn't appeal to me.
This is my first taste of Karen Blixen/Isak Dinesen and I was in love from the first page. I was encourage by Victoria Mixon's the Art and Craft of Fiction to study her and I am so glad I did. In fact, I'm planning on buying everything by this author and I rarely am that passionate.
Blixen reminds me a lot of Flannery O'connor in the religious imagery, the intensity of the characterization and the perplexing endings. She makes me as charmed with 19th century Europe as OConnor does with Depression era and Post War South.
Mans like with OConnor, when I'm done, I feel like I've had a worshipful experience.
Pity the poor author who I read next.
Blixen reminds me a lot of Flannery O'connor in the religious imagery, the intensity of the characterization and the perplexing endings. She makes me as charmed with 19th century Europe as OConnor does with Depression era and Post War South.
Mans like with OConnor, when I'm done, I feel like I've had a worshipful experience.
Pity the poor author who I read next.
I have a slight preference for Dinesen’s more fantastical Seven Gothic Tales, but this collection is almost as good. The more grounded approach here also allows for many profound descriptions of landscape and place, often very specific to Denmark and its history. But while grounded, these stories are still far from mundane: they overflow with dreams. The collection is bookended by two shorter stories that directly address the act of creation and the role of art, a theme implicit in the remaining stories, where characters are both empowered and endangered by their imaginations. Written during Nazi occupation, Demark’s history and the ability of its people to continue dreaming becomes a powerful statement against repression.
I struggled to finish this collection of short stories. The quasi-religious/mythical tone and subject matter was not to my taste, nor was the deliberately antiquated writing style. I feel like I missed the point on about 80% of the stories, while in the other 20% the point was so obvious that I wondered why even bother. I remember reading some of Dinesen's short stories in college and liking them, but either they were her best offerings or my taste has changed. Oh well. :-)
challenging
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated