Another interesting debate goes on about whether Markham really wrote West with the Night. There are links to pieces about that from the site above, too. The book is a great piece of writing--whoever did it. I just wish they'd have given us more!
"We, as a species, are always looking for cathedrals made of fire, and part of the thrill of reading a great book is the promise of another yet to come, a book that may move us even more deeply, raise us even higher."--Michael Cunningham
Sunday, January 07, 2001
I found a great Web site about Isak Dinesen/Karen Blixen: karenblixen.com. It has a Beryl Markham link with lots of information about her as well. The site appears to be hosted by the (small) publisher of a biography of Dinesen--not the biography I'm reading, which is the Judith Thurman. Karenblixen.com has a page of "corrections," which purports to rectify what its writer says are frequently repeated pieces of misinformation about Dinesen. I haven't checked yet, but it's obvious that some of them are directed at Thurman's work. That doesn't bother me--it makes the whole thing more interesting, in fact. And even though I've only read a little bit of Thurman, the writing is outstanding, and you immediately get the feeling that you're in the hands of a very skillful biographer.
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