Anecdotes of Destiny and Ehrengard: And, Ehrengard
- 作者:Dinesen,Isak
- 出版社:Vintage Books
- 出版日期:1993-07-01
- 語言:英文
- ISBN10:0679743332
- ISBN13:9780679743330
- 裝訂:平裝 / 14 x 21 x 1.9 cm / 普通級 / 初版
In the classic "Babette's Feast," a mysterious Frenchwoman prepares a sumptuous feast for a gathering of religious ascetics and, in doing so, introduces them to the true essence of grace. In "The Immortal Story," a miserly old tea-trader living in Canton wishes for power and finds redemption as he turns an oft-told sailors' tale into reality for a young man and woman. And in the magnificent novella Ehrengard, Dinesen tells of the powerful yet restrained rapport between a noble Wagnerian beauty and a rakish artist.
Hauntingly evoked and sensuously realized, the five stories read and novella collected here have the hold of "fairy stories read in childhood . . . of dreams . . . and of our life as
dreams" (The New York Times).