- New
Lennart Hagerfors
Tallinn : Kunst, 1999
260 p
ISBN 5899202017
Hardcover used ex-library book in good condition.
Bror Blixen was destined to become known as the man who was married to the world-famous writer, the eccentric Karen Blixen, a man who cheated on his wife and infected her with syphilis. Both were black sheep in the background of Nordic petty-bourgeois conservativeness, both dreamed of a wider world - and then the opportunity arose to move to Africa. Bror Blixen failed as a farmer, but he was even more successful as a hunter and a ladies' man. He was a charismatic and multifaceted personality, at once careless and caring, loyal and treacherous. He remained in someone's shadow all his life - first his twin brother Hans, then his wife Karen, and finally his wife's lover Denys Finch-Hatton. Only in the wilds of Africa, far from the failures of business life and the obligations of love, did he find his way to himself.