If you have ever read Amerika, and thought the Nature Theater of Oklahoma was the best possible ending to the novel, you might feel a similar, if milder, effect in the stories I listed above. Not unlike Kafka, there is something obscene, slightly private and incoherent about these stories as was the case with some of the best of Kafka, everything here was kept out of publication in her lifetime. Then, I read The Bear and The Kiss, and this confirmed my initial view. The Fat Man, I read to start, in following my immediate endearment towards it (the name of this story being so blunt and round and fresh, I couldn't help starting there) I was instantly convinced it was a little work of genius, although I wasn't sure if it was a fluke or a genuine effect of Dinesen's project as a writer. This is the first I am reading of Isak Dinesen.
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