Katharine's review
Seven Gothic Tales
by Isak Dinesen
Katharine's review
Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen
Katharine's review
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bookshelves:
c20,
currently-reading,
historicalfiction,
shortfiction
I'd read "The Deluge at Norderney" before, and I have one story left to read when I get back to Austin, but I read the other five this week. I think "The Roads Round Pisa" and "The Monkey" are my favorites (after "The Deluge ..."), though I also quite liked "The Old Chevalier." I like Dinesen's women very much.
It's so strange to think that she was writing at the same time as Virginia Woolf, though -- as I said to T., her stories feel like they were either written eighty years earlier than Woolf's, or forty years later, with a retro historical-fiction sensibility. I can't really explain it any better than that.
It's so strange to think that she was writing at the same time as Virginia Woolf, though -- as I said to T., her stories feel like they were either written eighty years earlier than Woolf's, or forty years later, with a retro historical-fiction sensibility. I can't really explain it any better than that.
