Karen Blixen lived her life as the antithesis of hygge and there was no better illustration than the four months she spent in the US in the early part of 1959, ostensibly to make educational films and give talks for the Ford Foundation and the Encyclopaedia Britannica but also to have a hell of a good time.īlixen, who wrote mainly under the pseudonym Isak Dinesen, was at the height of her fame. Indeed, the current fashion for Danish hygge, the state of contentment engendered by fireside cosiness and conviviality, would have appalled her. It would have appealed to her love of a good story, her taste for the unconventional and her innate antipathy to the commonplace. The 74-year-old Danish author of the classic memoir Out Of Africa would have happily endorsed the tale, however.
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