Seven Gothic Tales: The Roads Round Pisa; The Old Chevalier; the Monkey; The Deluge at Norderney; The Supper at Elsinore; The Dreamers; The Poet (Penguin Modern Classics) |
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Isak Dinesen
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Pages: 368 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0141187190
Pub: Penguin Classics
Pub date: 2002-10-31
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 190508
Reader Reviews:
A fantastic book (2/3 people found this helpful)
Isak Dinesen's debut book is one of those rare speciments in literature which one can read and re-read with increasing enjoyment. This is a wonderful collection of stories. Highly recomendable.
Interesting failure (3/7 people found this helpful)
The Seven Gothic Tales are an essay in suspense/revulsion. These, one suspects, were written in an attempt to fall into the then young film horror genre.They were not taken up for that: werewolves and Transylvania passed into the Western group psyche instead. The tales are over-elaborately written and at times hard to follow.Woman as the cause of overdone revulsion, a recurrent theme, is maybe unpromising in itself. But these are the apprenticeship for Karen Blixen and, viewed in that light, show the writer's development and increasing maturity of style. Not a bad read for a winter's night and quite a varied choice for a book club.
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