Out of Africa

Karen Christence Dinesen, Baroness Blixen-Finecke - wrote as Isak Dinesen, Pierre Andrézel, Tania Blixen, Osceola, etc.A Danish writer, who mixed in her work supernatural elements, aestheticism, and erotic undertones with an aristocratic view of life, Blixen always emphasized that she was a storyteller in the traditional, oral sense of the word. She drew her inspiration from the Bible, the Arabian Nights, the works of Homer, the Icelandic Sagas, and the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen, who was her great fellow countryman. She wrote in English and in Danish.

出版者:Modern Library

作者:Isak Dinesen

页数:416

出版时间:1992-9-5

价格:USD 22.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780679600213

丛书系列:Modern Library

图书标签:英文原著Africa回忆录外国经典英原文书文学外国文学随笔

In this book, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells with classic simplicity of the ways of the country and the natives: of the beauty of the Ngong Hills and coffee trees in blossom: of her guests, from the Prince of Wales to Knudsen, the old charcoal burner, who visited her: of primitive festivals: of big game that were her near neighbors--lions, rhinos, elephants, zebras, buffaloes--and of Lulu, the little gazelle who came to live with her, unbelievably ladylike and beautiful.

The Random House colophon made its debut in February 1927 on the cover of a little pamphlet called "Announcement Number One." Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, the company's founders, had acquired the Modern Library from publishers Boni and Liveright two years earlier. One day, their friend the illustrator Rockwell Kent stopped by their office. Cerf later recalled, "Rockwell was sitting at my desk facing Donald, and we were talking about doing a few books on the side, when suddenly I got an inspiration and said, 'I've got the name for our publishing house. We just said we were go-ing to publish a few books on the side at random. Let's call it Random House.' Donald liked the idea, and Rockwell Kent said, 'That's a great name. I'll draw your trademark.' So, sitting at my desk, he took a piece of paper and in five minutes drew Random House, which has been our colophon ever since." Throughout the years, the mission of Random House has remained consistent: to publish books of the highest quality, at random. We are proud to continue this tradition today.

This edition is set from the first American edition of 1937 and commemorates the seventy-fifth anniversary of Random House.

读后感

文/张定浩 在电影《走出非洲》的开头，年迈的卡伦坐在丹麦尤斯特兹城老房子的打字机前，写她的故事。她说：“我已经写了所有其他人，并非我不够爱他们，而是他们较清楚，较...  

电影《走出非洲》是我的最爱之一，当我怀着爱屋及乌的心情读完同名小说，我只能说，它们就像是同名的两朵花，没有孰优孰劣，完全是不同的感受。 电影让我怀着幽微悲戚的心情缅怀了一个结局令人遗憾的爱情故事；但读过小说，我才发现，有关爱情的篇章不过是广袤沙漠中的掠过的...  

在读第二遍，理由当然是喜欢。 关于《走出非洲》电影的知名度和美誉度已远远超出了小说，我，即是通过电影才转回头阅读小说的。甚至于梅姨塑造的女主角影响力也超过了小说的作者，当然，尽管如此，我还是要花费两秒种，打下这个名字，凯伦.布里克森----并且记住这个名字，以示...  

在读第二遍，理由当然是喜欢。 关于《走出非洲》电影的知名度和美誉度已远远超出了小说，我，即是通过电影才转回头阅读小说的。甚至于梅姨塑造的女主角影响力也超过了小说的作者，当然，尽管如此，我还是要花费两秒种，打下这个名字，凯伦.布里克森----并且记住这个名字，以示...  

用户评价

高中时为了某个人读但最终记住却是KarenBlixen. The oxen is perpetually powerful.

The love of woman and womanliness is a masculine characteristic，and the love of man and manliness is a feminine characteristic

"in the highlands you woke up in the morning and thought: Here i am, where i ought to be." 优雅的文字，白描式的英文，浓郁的怀旧情绪，无边无际的原始美。

因为深爱同名的电影而找书来看。书里并没有太多的爱情，有的只是她对非洲生活的点滴回忆。看似平淡如水的文字下面流淌着真挚的热爱与怀念。

Every evening,I paged through this book a little bit,just like tasting a sip of café...It's palatable...