Danish author Isak Dinesen is best known for her three volumes of Gothic and romantic short stories—Seven Gothic Tales, Winter's Tales, and Last Tales—and her memoir Out of Africa. She wrote her stories in English first and then translated them into Danish. They fall into the oral tradition of The Arabian Nights, often distanced in time or set in exotic locales. Her characters experience trials that would test a Job yet are rewarded by a moment of epiphany that allows them to accept their destiny.
Dinesen's story "The Blue Jar" is actually a story within the story of "The Young Man with the Carnation" in Winter's Tales. It may have been influenced by Mallarmé's poem, "L'Azur." "The Blue Jar" has all the elements of the fable, the once-upon-a-timeness we expect, the lack of physical description of the characters, the pointed moral of the story at the end. …
Danish author Isak Dinesen is best known for her three volumes of Gothic and romantic short stories—Seven Gothic Tales, Winter's Tales, and Last Tales—and her memoir Out of Africa. She wrote her stories in English first and then translated them into Danish. They fall into the oral tradition of The Arabian Nights, often distanced in time or set in exotic locales. Her characters experience trials that would test a Job yet are rewarded by a moment of epiphany that allows them to accept their destiny.Dinesen's story "The Blue Jar" is actually a story within the story of "The Young Man with the Carnation" in Winter's Tales. It may have been influenced by Mallarmé's poem, "L'Azur." "The Blue Jar" has all the elements of the fable, the once-upon-a-timeness we expect, the lack of physical description of the characters, the pointed moral of the story at the end. …
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