Karen Blixen
Karen Blixen | |
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Born | Karen Christenze Dinesen 17 April 1885 Rungsted, Zealand, Denmark |
Died | 7 September 1962 Rungsted, Zealand, Denmark | (aged 77)
Pen name | Isak Dinesen, Tania Blixen |
Occupation | Writer |
Language | English, Danish |
Notable works | Out of Africa, Seven Gothic Tales, Shadows on the Grass, Babette's Feast |
Spouse | |
Partner | Denys Finch Hatton |
Relatives | Ellen Dahl (sister) Thomas Dinesen (brother) Andreas Nicolai Hansen (great-grandfather) Mary Westenholz (aunt) |
Baroness Karen Christenze von Blixen-Finecke (born Dinesen; 17 April 1885 – 7 September 1962) was a Danish author who wrote in Danish and English. She is also known under her pen names Isak Dinesen, used in English-speaking countries; Tania Blixen, used in German-speaking countries; Osceola, and Pierre Andrézel.
Blixen is best known for
Blixen was considered several times for the Nobel Prize in Literature, but did not receive it because judges were reportedly concerned about showing favoritism to Scandinavian writers, according to Danish reports.[2]
Biography
Early life and education
Karen Dinesen was born in Rungstedlund, north of Copenhagen. Her father, Wilhelm Dinesen (1845–1895), was a writer, army officer, and politician. He served in the 1864 war by Denmark against Prussia, and also joined the French army against Prussia. He later wrote about the Paris Commune. He was from a wealthy family of Jutland landowners[3] closely connected to the monarchy, the established church and conservative politics. He was elected as Member of Parliament.
Her mother, Ingeborg Westenholz (1856–1939), came from a wealthy
Dinesen's early years were strongly influenced by her father's relaxed manner and his love of the outdoor life and hunting.[7] He wrote throughout his life and his memoir, Boganis Jagtbreve (Letters from the Hunt) became a minor classic in Danish literature.[6] While in his mid-20s, her father lived among the
On returning to Denmark, he suffered from syphilis which resulted in bouts of deep depression.[8] He conceived a child out of wedlock with his maid Anna Rasmussen, and was devastated because he had promised his mother-in-law to remain faithful to his wife. He hanged himself on 28 March 1895 when Karen was nine years old.[9]
Karen Dinesen's life at Rungstedlund changed significantly after her father's death. From the age of 10 years, her life was dominated by her mother's Westenholz family. Unlike her brothers, who attended school, she was educated at home by her maternal grandmother and by her aunt, Mary B. Westenholz. They brought her up in the staunch Unitarian tradition. Her Aunt Bess had significant influence on Dinesen. They engaged in lively discussions and correspondence on women's rights and relationships between men and women.[4]
During her early years, she spent part of her time at her mother's family home, the Mattrup seat farm near Horsens. In later years she visited Folehavegård, an estate near Hørsholm that had belonged to her father's family. Longing for the freedom she had enjoyed when her father was alive, she found some satisfaction in telling her younger sister Ellen hair-raising good-night stories, partly inspired by Danish folk tales and Icelandic sagas. In 1905, these led to her Grjotgard Ålvesøn og Aud, in which her literary talent began to emerge. Around this time, she also published fiction in Danish periodicals under the pseudonym Osceola,[4][7] the name of her father's dog, which she had often walked in her father's company.[6]
In 1898, Dinesen and her two sisters spent a year in Switzerland, where she learned to speak French. In 1902, she attended Charlotte Sode's art school in Copenhagen before continuing her studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts under Viggo Johansen from 1903 to 1906.[7] In her mid-twenties, she also visited Paris, London and Rome on study trips.
While still young, Dinesen spent many of her holidays with her paternal cousin's family, the Blixen-Fineckes, in
She decided to accept the favours of his twin brother,
Life in Kenya, 1914–1931
Soon after Dinesen arrived in Kenya, which at the time was part of
During
The land was not well-suited for coffee cultivation, given its high elevation. Here at long last one was in a position not to give a damn for all conventions, here was a new kind of freedom which until then one had only found in dreams![15]
Blixen and her husband were quite different in education and temperament, and Bror Blixen was unfaithful to his wife.
According to Peter Capstick, "It was not long after Blixen and his wife settled on their farm that he started womanizing." Capstick goes on to say, "His forays into town and his often wild socializing at the Muthaiga Club, coupled with a legendary indiscipline when it came to money and honoring his debts, soon gave the charming Swede a notorious reputation."
As a consequence, she was diagnosed with
At her farm, she also used to take care of local sick persons, including those suffering from fever,
She returned to Denmark in June 1915 for treatment which proved successful. Although Blixen's illness was eventually cured (some uncertainty exists), it created medical anguish for years to come.
On 5 April 1918, Bror and Karen were introduced at the Muthaiga Club to the English big game hunter Denys Finch Hatton (1887–1931). Soon afterwards he was assigned to military service in Egypt.
By 1919, the marriage had run into difficulties, causing her husband to request a divorce in 1920. Bror was dismissed as the farm manager by their uncle, Aage Westenholz, chair of the Karen Coffee Company, and Karen took over its management[14] in 1921.[4][7]
On his return to Kenya after the Armistice, Finch Hatton developed a close friendship with Karen and Bror. He left Africa again in 1920.
Against her wishes, Bror and Karen separated in 1921.
Finch Hatton often travelled back and forth between Africa and England, and visited Karen occasionally.[13] He returned in 1922, investing in a land development company. After her separation from her husband she and Finch Hatton had developed a close friendship, which eventually became a long-term love affair. In a letter to her brother Thomas in 1924, she wrote: "I believe that for all time and eternity I am bound to Denys, to love the ground he walks upon, to be happy beyond words when he is here, and to suffer worse than death many times when he leaves..."[17] But other letters in her collections show that the relationship was unstable,[3] and that Karen's increasing dependence upon Finch Hatton, who was intensely independent, was an issue.[13]
Karen and Bror were officially divorced in 1925.[11] Karen would go to Government House where she had befriended Joan Grigg who was the bored wife of the governor. Grigg would in time create a charity to create hospitals in Kenya.[18]
Finch Hatton moved into her house, made Blixen's farmhouse his home base between 1926 and 1931 and began leading safaris for wealthy sportsmen. Among his clients was Edward, Prince of Wales (the future
"When he had started in his car for the aerodrome in Nairobi, and had turned down the drive, he came back to look for a volume of poems, that he had given to me and now wanted on his journey. He stood with one foot on the running-board of the car, and a finger in the book, reading out to me a poem we had been discussing.
'Here are your grey geese,' he said.
I saw grey geese flying over the flatlands
Wild geese vibrant in the high air –
Unswerving from horizon to horizon
With their soul stiffened out in their throats –
And the grey whiteness of them ribboning the enormous skies
And the spokes of the sun over the crumpled hills.
Then he drove away for good, waving his arm to me."[19]
At the same time, the failure of the coffee plantation, as a result of mismanagement, the height of the farm, drought and the falling price of coffee caused by the worldwide economic depression, forced Blixen to abandon her estate.[7][20] The family corporation sold the land to a residential developer, and Blixen returned to Denmark in August 1931 to live with her mother. In the Second World War, she helped Jews escape out of German-occupied Denmark. She remained in Rungstedlund for the rest of her life.[14]
Life as a writer
While still in Kenya, Blixen had written to her brother Thomas, "I have begun to do what we brothers and sisters do when we don't know what else to resort to, I have started to write a book. ... I have been writing in English because I thought it would be more profitable."[12][21] Upon returning to Denmark, aged 46, she continued writing in earnest. Though her first book, Seven Gothic Tales, was completed in 1933, she had difficulty finding a publisher and used her brother's contacts with
Her second book, now the best known of her works, Out of Africa,[23] was published in 1937. Its success firmly established her reputation. Having learned from her previous experience, Blixen published the book first in Denmark and the United Kingdom, and then in the United States. Garnering another Book-of-the-Month Club choice, Blixen was assured of not only sales for this new work, but also renewed interest in Seven Gothic Tales.[12][13] She was awarded the Tagea Brandt Rejselegat (a Danish prize for women in the arts or academic life) in 1939.[24] The work brought attention from critics who were concerned not only with literary appraisal of the book, but also with defining Blixen's intentions and morality. Post-colonial criticism has linked her with contemporary British writers and in some cases branded her as just another morally bankrupt white European aristocrat. Danish scholars have not typically made judgments about her morality,[25] perhaps understanding that while elements of racism and colonial prejudices, given the context and era, are inherent in the work, her position as an outsider, a Dane and a woman made evaluating her, rather than the work, more complex.[26] Some critics, including Carolyn Martin Shaw and Raoul Granqvist, have judged her to be a racist and a white supremacist,[27] while other critics, such as Abdul R. JanMohamed, have recognized both her romanticized colonial attitudes and her understanding of colonial problems, as well as her concern and respect for African nationalists.[28]
Five years after the publication of Out of Africa, Blixen published a collection of short stories called Winter's Tales (1942; Danish: Vinter-eventyr).[29] A departure from her previous Gothic works, the stories reflect the starkness of the times, occupation tinged with courage and pride, and hope for the future. The stories do not reflect resistance, but resilience, and explore the interdependence of opposites.[30] She examines shame versus pride in "The Heroine", cowardice and courage in "The Pearls", master and servant in "The Invincible Slave-Owners",[31] and life versus death as well as freedom versus imprisonment in "Peter and Rosa". In "Sorrow-acre", the best-known story of the collection, Blixen explores victimization and oppression.[32] Because of the war, she had to be creative about getting the manuscript published, travelling to Stockholm and meeting with employees at both the American and British embassies. The Americans were unable to ship personal items, but the British embassy agreed, shipping the document to her publisher in the United States. Blixen did not receive further communication about Winter's Tales until after the war ended, when she received correspondence praising the stories from American troops who had read them in the Armed Services Editions during the conflict.[33]
Blixen worked on a novel she called Albondocani for many years, hoping to produce a volume in the style of
During World War II, when Denmark was occupied by the Germans, Blixen started her only full-length novel, the introspective tale The Angelic Avengers, under a French pseudonym, Pierre Andrezel, for the first and last time. Though it was written in Danish, she claimed that it was a translation of a French work written between the wars and denied being its author. The book was published in 1944[42] and nominated for a third Book-of-the-Month Club selection. Blixen initially did not want the book to be nominated, but eventually accepted the distinction.[43] The horrors experienced by the young heroines have been interpreted as an allegory of Nazism,[20] though Blixen also denied that interpretation, claiming instead that the novel was a distraction that had helped her to escape the feeling of being imprisoned by the war.[42] In 1956, in an interview for The Paris Review, she finally acknowledged that she was the author of the novel, saying that it was her "illegitimate child".[43][33] Dorothy Canfield described "The Angelic Avengers" in her Book-of-the-Month Club News review as "of superlatively fine literary quality, written with distinction in an exquisite style".[12]
A collection of stories, Last Tales (Danish: Sidste fortællinger) was published in 1957, followed in 1958 by the collection Anecdotes of Destiny (Danish: Skæbne-Anekdoter).[44] Last Tales included seven stories that Blixen had intended to be parts of Albondocani. It also included sections called New Gothic Tales and New Winter's Tales.[45] Blixen's concept of the art of the story is perhaps most directly expressed in the stories "The Blank Page" and "The Cardinal's First Tale" in Last Tales. These tales feature many innuendos, which Blixen employed to force her reader into participating in the creation of the story.[46] She mixed obscure references with explicit observation. Her writing was not just a retelling of tales, however; it was a complex layering[36] of clues and double entendres which force the reader to deduce Blixen's intent and draw conclusions.[47] The story, for Blixen, was vital to expression: it gives a recitation of experience, and simultaneously a potential vision of the possible.[48]
Blixen planned for Anecdotes of Destiny to be a final part of the Last Tales in 1953, but as she prepared all the stories, she decided to publish Anecdotes as a separate volume. She wanted both books to appear simultaneously, but because of publication issues Anecdotes was delayed for another year.
In 1959, Blixen made her only trip to the United States. It was an extended trip spanning from January to April,
After returning to Denmark, Blixen resumed working, despite severe illness, finishing the African sketches Shadows on the Grass in 1960.
Illness and death
When Blixen was diagnosed with syphilis in 1915, she was treated with mercury tablets. She took approximately 1 gram of mercury per day for almost a year according to some reports,[68] while others show she did so for only a few months.[62] She then spent time in Denmark for treatment and was given arsenic, which she continued to take in drop form as a treatment for the syphilis that she thought was the cause of her continued pain.[69] Blixen had reported severe bouts of abdominal pain as early as 1921, while she was still in Kenya.[62] Several well-known physicians and specialists of both internal medicine and neurology diagnosed her with third-stage chronic syphilis.[70] Mogens Fog, who was Blixen's neurologist, thought that her gastric problems were attributable to syphilis, in spite of the fact that blood and spinal fluid tests were negative.[62][68] By the time she left Africa, Blixen was suffering from anemia, had jaundice and had overused arsenic. As clumps of her hair had begun to fall out, she took to wearing hats and turbans.[71]
Although it was widely believed that syphilis continued to plague Blixen throughout her lifetime,
In 1946 and 1955 the neurosurgeon Eduard Busch performed a
It is also known that Blixen suffered from
Unable to eat, Blixen died in 1962 at Rungstedlund, her family's estate, at the age of 77, apparently of malnutrition.[72][6] Others attribute her weight loss and eventual death to anorexia nervosa.[73][74]
Posthumous works
Among Blixen's posthumously published works are: Ehrengard (1962),
Legacy
Awards and honors
For her literary accomplishments, Blixen was awarded the Danish
Blixen's former secretary and house manager, Clara Svendsen wrote a book, Notes about Karen Blixen (Danish: Notater om Karen Blixen) in 1974, which told of the transformation of the young woman who moved to Africa into the sophisticated writer. Giving personal anecdotes about Blixen's life, Svendsen focused on the private woman behind her public image.[87] Blixen's great-nephew, Anders Westenholz, an accomplished writer himself, wrote two books about her and her works: Kraftens horn: myte og virkelighed i Karen Blixens liv (1982) (translated into English as The Power of Aries: myth and reality in Karen Blixen's life and republished in 1987) and Den glemte abe: mand og kvinde hos Karen Blixen (1985) (The Forgotten Ape: man and woman in Karen Blixen).[88]
Karen Blixen's portrait was featured on the front of the Danish 50-krone banknote, 1997 series, from 7 May 1999 to 25 August 2005.[89] She also featured on Danish postage stamps that were issued in 1980[90] and 1996.[91] The Asteroid 3318 Blixen was named in her honor on her 100th birthday.[92]
On 17 April 2010, Google celebrated her 125th birthday with a Google Doodle.[93]
Rungstedlund Museum
Blixen lived most of her life at the family estate Rungstedlund, which was acquired by her father in 1879. The property is located in Rungsted, 24 kilometres (15 mi) north of Copenhagen, Denmark's capital.[94] The oldest parts of the estate date to 1680, and it had been operated as both an inn and a farm. Most of Blixen's writing was done in Ewald's Room, named after author Johannes Ewald.[95]
In the 1940s, Blixen contemplated selling the estate due to the costs of running it, but the house became a haven for a group of young intellectuals, including
Karen Blixen Museum, Nairobi
When Blixen returned to Denmark in 1931, she sold her property to a developer, Remi Martin, who divided the land into 20 acres (8.1 ha) parcels.[98] The Nairobi suburb that emerged on the land where Blixen farmed coffee is now named Karen. Blixen herself declared in her later writings that "the residential district of Karen" was "named after me".[99] The family corporation that owned Blixen's farm was incorporated as the "Karen Coffee Company" and the house she lived in was built by the chairman of the board, Aage Westenholz, her uncle.[100][98] Though Westenholz named the coffee company after his own daughter Karen and not Blixen,[8] the developer of the suburb named the district after its famous author/farmer rather than the name of her company.[98][101][102]
Changing hands several times, the original farmhouse occupied by Blixen was purchased by the Danish government and given to the Kenyan government in 1964 as an independence gift. The government established a college of nutrition on the site and then when the film Out of Africa was released in 1985, the college was acquired by the National Museums of Kenya. A year later, the Karen Blixen Museum was opened and features many of Blixen's furnishings, which were reacquired from Lady McMillan, who had purchased them when Blixen left Africa. The museum house has been judged a significant cultural landmark, not only for its association with Blixen, but as a cultural representative of Kenya's European settlement, as well as a significant architectural style—the late 19th-century bungalow.[98]
Works
A considerable proportion of the Karen Blixen archive at the Royal Danish Library consists of the unpublished poems, plays and short stories Karen Dinesen wrote before she married and left for Africa. In her teens and early 20s, she probably spent much of her spare time practising the art of writing. It was only when she was 22 that she decided to publish some of her short stories in literary journals, adopting the pen name Osceola.[103]
Some of these works were published posthumously, including tales previously removed from earlier collections and essays she wrote for various occasions.
- Eneboerne (The Hermits), August 1907, published in Danish in Tilskueren under the pen name Osceola)[104]
- Pløjeren (The Ploughman), October 1907, published in Danish in Gads danske Magasin, under the name Osceola)[105]
- Familien de Cats (The de Cats Family), January 1909, published in Danish in Tilskueren under the name Osceola)[105]
- Performing Arts Journal in 1986[107]
- Seven Gothic Tales (1934 in the United States, 1935 in Denmark)[108]
- Out of Africa (1937 in Denmark and England, 1938 in the United States)
- Winter's Tales (1942)[109]
- The Angelic Avengers (1946)[110]
- Last Tales (1957)[111]
- Anecdotes of Destiny (1958) (including Babette's Feast)[112]
- Shadows on the Grass (1960 in England and Denmark, 1961 in the United States)[113]
- Ehrengard, a novella written in English and first published in abbreviated form in December 1962 in The Ladies’ Home Journal as The Secret of Rosenbad. Published in full 1963 in several languages as Ehrengard.[114]
- Carnival: Entertainments and Posthumous Tales (posthumous 1977, United States)[115]
- Daguerreotypes and Other Essays (posthumous 1979, England and United States)[116][117]
- On Modern Marriage and Other Observations (posthumous 1986, United States)[118]
- Letters from Africa, 1914–1931 (posthumous 1981, United States)[119]
- Karen Blixen in Danmark: Breve 1931–1962 (posthumous 1996, Denmark)
- Karen Blixen i Afrika. En brevsamling, 1914–31 i IV bind (posthumous 2013, Denmark)[120]
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Further reading
- Broe, Mary L. Women's Writing in Exile. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1993. Print.
- ISBN 0-226-46871-2
- Aschan, Ulf, The Man Whom Women Loved: The Life of Bror Blixen (New York: St. Martin's Press, ©1987) ISBN 9780312000646
- Stegner, Wallace, The Spectator Bird (Fiction – Blixen is a character in the novel) (New York: Penguin Publishing Group, 1976) ISBN 978-0- 14-310579-4
External links
- Official website
- Works by or about Karen Blixen at Internet Archive
- Works by Karen Blixen at Faded Page (Canada)
- Works by Karen Blixen at Open Library
- Petri Liukkonen. "Karen Blixen". Books and Writers.
- Eugene Walter (Autumn 1956). "Isak Dinesen, The Art of Fiction No. 14". The Paris Review. Autumn 1956 (14).
- Stambaugh, Sara: Isak Dinesen in America, lecture at the University of Alberta, 28 October 1998
- Karen Blixen Museum Archived 17 March 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Denmark
- Karen Blixen Museum, Kenya
- Family genealogy
- A model of Karen's house in Rungstedlund in Google's 3D Warehouse, Denmark
- A model of Karen's farm near Nairobi in Google's 3D Warehouse, Kenya
- Karen Blixen Museum – Secret World