The role of Baroness, landowner and plantation owner meant she was responsible for staff, harvests, finances, social activities, and more. She arrived in Mombasa in January 1914, and married her betrothed, the Swedish Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke, the very same day. It began in late 1913 when the 28-year-old boarded a ship in Denmark. Role, purpose, fate, and destiny are intertwined in Karen Blixen’s work. For those years, Blixen’s role in life changed. The book was her memory of the seventeen years she lived in Africa as coffee plantation owner Baroness Karen Blixen-Finecke. In her autobiography Out of Africa, Blixen applied this idea to herself.Īlthough Blixen sometimes wrote under a pseudonym, Isak Dinesen being her most frequent choice, she wrote Out of Africa as Karen Blixen. Then a witch casts a spell so that “any lie they tell eventually becomes the truth.” Unable to escape their given role, the characters have to accept their new reality and make the best of it. In the story, the plot turns the children into marionettes. One of them in particular, Sandhedens Hoevn ( Revenge of the Truth, published in 1926), shows that Blixen was preoccupied with the idea of fate and a person’s role in life from an early age. She told Hannah that she and her siblings acted out some of her work, like The Marionette Plays. This is apparent from her earliest writing.īlixen began writing as a child. The characters in her books are stylized to their roles because accepting one’s role in life is key to finding purpose.
According to her biographer Donald Hannah, Blixen’s attitude to life shaped her work. Karen Blixen, author of Out of Africa (1937) and Babette’s Feast (1958), wrote dozens of works, including short stories, poems, plays, and essays.
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