Above all, however, the role of art in human life constitutes a central theme of her authorship. She speaks in favor of such aristocratic values as duty, honor, and justice, but she also rejects the Christian dualistic worldview and questions the role of religion and the place of women in contemporary bourgeois society. This was also the case with her thematic concerns, for her stories take place mostly in the century between 17 and express the ethos of a bygone age. Her chosen form therefore often struck her contemporaries as old-fashioned. Like them, she preferred the longer, drawn-out tale to the short story proper, and authorial narration, often with overtly present narrators, is a hallmark of her narratives. Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) (born 17 April 1885 – 7 September 1962) reacted against the psychological and social realism of contemporary Danish literature and looked back to the Romantic storytellers for inspiration.
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