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    A Study Guide for Isak Dinesen's "Babette's Feast"
    A Study Guide for Isak Dinesen's "Babette's Feast"
    A Study Guide for Isak Dinesen's "Babette's Feast"
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    A Study Guide for Isak Dinesen's "Babette's Feast"

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    A Study Guide for Isak Dinesen's "Babette's Feast," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 15, 2016
    ISBN9781535819022
    A Study Guide for Isak Dinesen's "Babette's Feast"

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      A Study Guide for Isak Dinesen's "Babette's Feast" - Gale

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      Babette's Feast

      Isak Dinesen

      1950

      Introduction

      Perhaps best known for Out of Africa (1937), Isak Dinesen is the pseudonym of Karen Blixen. Having established her reputation as an author in the 1930s and 1940s, she sought to increase her income in the 1950s by having stories published in American magazines. A number of her stories were featured in Ladies' Home Journal, including Babette's Feast, which was first published in 1950. A friend had advised her to write about food because Americans love food, so she crafted a story about the transformative powers of a very special feast. In 1958, Babette's Feast, along with other stories published in magazines, was compiled into Anecdotes of Destiny, which was available as of 2004.

      As a child, Dinesen suffered the loss of her father by suicide. In the wake of this tragedy, her grandmother and a nearby aunt helped care for the family. Through this experience, Dinesen came to understand and appreciate the ways women take care of loved ones and of each other. As an adult, Dinesen found herself operating a coffee farm in East Africa, an experience that taught her a great deal about contrasting people and cultures. Dinesen's admirers and scholars often seek parallels between her life and her writing, and in Babette's Feast Dinesen seems to draw on her childhood and adult experiences to give the story depth and authenticity.

      Author Biography

      Karen Blixen (also known as Isak Dinesen) was born Karen Christentze Dinesen on April 17, 1885, near Copenhagen, Denmark. Her father was loosely related to royalty, and her mother was the daughter of a successful shipowner. When Dinesen was ten, her father committed suicide. This was devastating to Dinesen, who had shared a close relationship with her father.

      Literature played a prominent role in Dinesen's family; her grandfather had been friends with the fairy tale author Hans Christian Andersen, and her father, brother, a sister, and an aunt were all writers. When Dinesen was twenty-two, several of her short

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