Fiction and the Fantastic: Isak Dinesen’s ‘The Monkey’

Описание: In ‘Seven Gothic Tales’ (1934), Isak Dinesen (the pseudonym of Karen Blixen) confronts some of the most unsettling aspect of sexual guilt and desire with psychological astuteness. In this extract from their podcast series Fiction and the Fantastic, Marina Warner and Adam Thirlwell discuss Dinesen’s story ‘The Monkey’ and its stark confrontation with perversity.

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Further reading in the LRB:

On 'Out of Africa':
⁠https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v08/n...

On Dinesen's letters:
⁠https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v04/n...

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