Title : The African Farm - Karen Blixen - book

Summary :

When the breath whistled past my head, it was the wind in the tall trees of the forest, not rain. When it skimmed the ground, it was the wind in the bushes and tall grass, but it was not rain. When it rustled and hissed at eye level, it was the wind in the cornfields. It possessed the sounds of rain so well that one was continually deceived, yet one listened to it with a certain pleasure, as if a long-awaited spectacle were at last appearing on the scene. And still it was not rain. But when the earth responded in unison with a deep, luxuriant, and growing roar, when the whole world sang around me in all directions, above and below me, then it was rain indeed. It was like finding the sea again after having been deprived of it for a long time, like the embrace of a lover." The work of Alain Gnaedig, one of the most eminent translators of Scandinavian languages, but also the author of a new translation of Dickens, finally restores all its brilliance to Karen Blixen's prose, by offering the French reader a faithful translation of the Danish original of The African Farm, one of the most popular titles in 20th-century literature.

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