Too Close to the Sun: The Audacious Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton

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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. [86] 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). [87] Jørgensen, Bo Hakon; Juhl, Marianne (1 August 2016). "Karen Blixen". Den Store Danske (in Danish). Copenhagen, Denmark: Gyldendal . Retrieved 14 August 2016.Pauline Kael of The New Yorker described the film as "unsatisfying" and wrote that Streep is "animated in the early scenes; she's amusing when she acts ditsy, and she has some oddly affecting moments. Her character doesn't deepen though, or come to mean more to us, and Redford doesn't give out with anything for her to play against." [24] Paul Attanasio of The Washington Post stated that the film "has little in the way of narrative drive" and "rarely seems more than an elevated form of tourism." [25]

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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] the English big game hunter Denys Finch Hatton (1887–1931). Soon afterwards he was assigned to military service in Egypt. Babette's Feast director Gabriel Axel dies". BBC News. London, England. 10 February 2014. Archived from the original on 7 March 2014 . Retrieved 19 November 2016.

Stecher-Hansen, Marianne (2006). "Picturing Karen Blixen—Artist, Charlatan, Heretic, and Iconoclast: European Storyteller in the American Marketplace" (PDF). The Bridge. 29 (2): 25–41. ISSN 0741-1200. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016 . Retrieved 8 November 2016. Attanasio, Paul (December 20, 1985). " 'Out of Africa': Redford & Streep in a Tropical Tupor." The Washington Post. C4. Although it was widely believed that syphilis continued to plague Blixen throughout her lifetime, [62] [69] extensive tests were unable to reveal evidence of syphilis in her system after 1925. [68] Her writing prowess suggests that she did not suffer from the mental degeneration of late stages of syphilis. She did suffer a mild permanent loss of sensation in her legs that could be attributed to use of the arsenic-based anti-syphilis drug salvarsan. [62] Her gastric pain was often called " tropic dysentery", though no stool analyses were reported in her medical records. Concerned about gaining weight, Blixen took strong laxatives "during her whole adult life", which after years of misuse affected her digestive system. She also was a heavy smoker, which when combined with her minimal food intake led to her developing a peptic ulcer. [70] Scott, Joanna (12 August 2009). "In the Theater of Isak Dinesen". The Nation. New York City, New York. Archived from the original on 20 December 2016 . Retrieved 23 December 2016. Karen Blixen i Afrika : en brevsamling, 1914–31 – Karen Blixen | bibliotek.dk". bibliotek.dk (in Danish) . Retrieved 15 April 2017.Henriksen, Aage (March 1967). "A Portrait of Karen Blixen". Orbis Litterarum. 22 (1): 319–342. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0730.1967.tb00467.x. ISSN 1600-0730 . Retrieved 20 November 2016. 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] 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. Karen Dinesen was born in Rungstedlund, north of Copenhagen. Her father, Wilhelm Dinesen (1845–1895), was a writer and army officer, including in the 1864 war by Denmark against Prussia and who also joined the French army against Prussia and 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 Unitarian bourgeois merchant family of ship owners. [4] Karen Dinesen was the second oldest in a family of three sisters and two brothers. Her younger brother, Thomas Dinesen, grew up to earn the Victoria Cross in the First World War. [5] Karen was known to her friends as "Tanne". [6]