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Question 126: Glenway Wescott on Isak Dinesen?
Q. Glenway Wescott (1901-1987), a
Wisconsin author, wrote a series of essays about his acquaintances with
writers of the mid-twentieth century, in Images of Truth. Here is a sample of his comments about Isak Dinesen:
"Which poet would you choose to have been loved by?" he asked her.
She answered, "Robert Burns," Wescott relates. "Someone pointed out to
her that she would have had to resign herself to his going away and
leaving her to her own devices a great part of the time.
'Yes, but I could always have gone on expecting him to come back,' she
said. 'Furthermore, all my life I have felt a hearty dislike of a
one-man dog and of a one-woman man.'"
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Donelson. All rights reserved. During the past quarter century, Linda Donelson has been the only author writing about Karen Blixen for an international audience. Her biography, Out of Isak Dinesen (1998), was the Number One Best-Selling Scandinavian / or related title at Amazon.com for five years.
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