by Isak Dinesen · El País · tapa dura · ISBN 9788489669444
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«Memorias de África» is the memoir by Isak Dinesen, pen name of Karen Blixen, published by El País in 2002 in hardcover (414 pages, in Spanish).
The book recounts the life of the Danish writer in Kenya, where she ran a coffee plantation from 1914 to 1931. Africa is the great character of these pages: its people, its culture and a landscape that the author describes with a European gaze, between fascination and distance, through the encounters, reflections and everyday scenes that marked her stay.
It is the autobiographical work originally known as «Out of Africa», first published in 1937. This 2002 edition belongs to the Clásicos del Siglo XX collection, with introductory texts and translation by Barbara McShane and Javier Alfaya.
For readers seeking a classic travel memoir and autobiographical narrative, particularly those who appreciate the literature of Danish writer Karen Blixen or the colonial Kenya portrayed in the movie.
Baroness Karen Christentze von Blixen-Finecke 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.
