书名：Out of Africa走出非洲
作者：Karen Blixen凯伦·布里克森
出版社名称：Penguin Classics
出版时间：2001
语种：英文
ISBN：9780141183336
商品尺寸：12.8 x 1.5 x 19.7 cm
包装：平装
页数：336
Out of Africa《走出非洲》是丹麦女作家凯伦·布里克森发表的自传体小说。书中以优美的文字叙述了1914年至1931年作者在非洲经营咖啡农场的生活，充满深情地回忆了非洲的自然景色、动物和人，体现出作者对非洲风土人情的熟悉和眷恋。故事缠绵悱恻，扣人心弦。

★凯伦·布里克森因为《走出非洲》，获得两次诺贝尔文学奖提名，被誉为与安徒生齐名的丹麦"文学国宝"，改编的同名电影获七项奥斯卡大奖。
★海明威认为凯伦·布里克森更应该获得诺贝尔文学奖，因为她写出了《走出非洲》。
★《心是孤独的猎手》的作者麦卡勒斯很喜欢《走出非洲》，对凯伦·布里克森非常推崇。
★《蒂凡尼的早餐》的作者杜鲁门·卡波特认为《走出非洲》是"二十世纪很唯美的一本书"
★美国著名小说家约翰·厄普代克对凯伦·布里克森极其欣赏。

媒体评论：
《走出非洲》描写了一个个充满激情的故事，用田园诗般的语言追忆失去的故土。--美国《时代》周刊

作者用优美的语言描绘出如诗如画般的肯尼亚，连与它素未谋面的人都为之动容。--英国《卫报》

在她传世的作品里，悲剧与喜剧经常混淆不清，命运的转机与结局更是嘲弄与安慰的结合，人生的苦乐往往包含在想不到会预见的什么里面。这种起伏曲折的命运契机，这样耐人寻味的巧妙安排，正是布里克森作品令人目眩神迷的精华所在——笑看人生。--《走出非洲》影评

In 1914 Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya with her husband to run a coffee farm. Instantly drawn to the land, she spent her happiest years there until the plantation failed. Karen Blixen was forced to return to Denmark in 1931 and it was there that she wrote this classic account of her experiences. A poignant farewell to her beloved farm, Out of Africa describes her strong friendships with the people of her area, her affection for the landscape and animals, and great love for the adventurer Denys Finch-Hatton.
Written with astonishing clarity and an unsentimental intelligence, Out of Africa portrays a way of life that has disappeared for ever.
Out of Africa《走出非洲》是丹麦作家凯伦·布里克森在1937年发表的自传体小说，描绘了1914年至1931年，作者在非洲经营咖啡农场的故事。她匠心独运，将众多的人、事、景、物融于一炉，字里行间流露着对非洲和非洲人民的真挚情感。小说记录了白人和土著居民的交往、土著居民生活的点点滴滴、作者经营农场的艰辛和她的爱情，缠绵悱恻，感人至深。小说关于非洲大地自然风光的描写脍炙人口。本书影响了海明威等很多作家，作者也由此书取得巨大声誉，获两次诺贝尔文学奖提名。改编的同名电影，由著名影星梅丽尔·斯特里普主演，获得七项奥斯卡大奖，已成为影史经典。

From the moment Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya in 1914 to manage a coffee plantation, her heart belonged to Africa. Drawn to the intense colours and ravishing landscapes, Karen Blixen spent her happiest years on the farm and her experiences and friendships with the people around her are vividly recalled in these memoirs. "Out of Africa" is the story of a remarkable and unconventional woman and of a way of life that has vanished for ever.

凯伦·布里克森（1885.4.17-1962.9.7），丹麦作家，她在三十余年的写作生涯中，先后用英文、丹麦文发表《七篇哥特式的故事》、《走出非洲》、《冬日的故事》等作品。《走出非洲》为她赢得巨大声誉，她获得过两次诺贝尔文学奖提名，与安徒生并称为丹麦“文学国宝”。《走出非洲》同名电影斩获七项奥斯卡大奖。

ISAK DINESEN was the pen-name ofKaren Blixen, who was born in Rungsted, Denmark in 1885. After studying art at Copenhagen, Paris and Rome, she married her cousin, Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke, in 1914. Together they went to Kenya to manage a coffee plantation. After their divorce in 1921, she continued to run the plantation until a collapse in the coffee market forced her back to Denmark in 1931. Although she had written occasional contributions to Danish periodicals since 1905 (under the nom de plume of Osceola), her real début took place in 1934 with the publication of Seven Gothic Tales, written in English under her pen-name. Out of Africa (1937) is an autobiographical account of the years she spent in Kenya. Most of her subsequent books were published in English and Danish simultaneously, including Winter's Tales (1942) and The Angelic Avengers (1946), under the name of Pierre Andrézol. Among her other collections of stories are Last Tales (1957), Anecdotes of Destiny (1958), Shadows on the Grass (1960) and Ehrengard (1963). All of these books are published by Penguin. Baroness Blixen died in Rungsted in 1962.
1. Kamante and Lulu
2. A Shooting Accident on the Farm
3. Visitors to the Farm
4. From an Immigrant’s Notebook
5. Farewell to the Farm

I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills. The Equator runs across these highlands, a hundred miles to the north, and the farm lay at an altitude of over six thousand feet. In the daytime you felt that you had got high up; near to the sun, but the early mornings and evenings were limpid and restful, and the nights were cold.
The geographical position and the height o the land combined to create a landscape that had not its like in all the world. There was no fat on it and no luxuriance anywhere: it was Africa distilled up through six thousand feet like the strong and refined essence of a continent. The colours were dry and burnt, like the colours in pottery. The trees had a light delicate foliage, the structure of which was different from that of the trees in Europe; it did not grow in bows or cupolas. but in horizontal layers, and the formation gave to the tall solitary trees likeness to the palms, or a heroic and romantic air like full- rigged ships with their sails furled, and to the edge of a wood a strange appearance as if the whole wood were faintly vibrating. Upon the grass of the great plains the crooked bare old thorn-trees were scattered, and the grass was spiced like thyme and bog-myrtles; in some places the scent was so strong that it smarted in the nostrils. All the flowers that you found or’ the plains, or upon the creepers and liana in the native forest. were diminutive like flowers of the downs — only just in the beginning of the long rains a number of big, massive heavy-scented lilies sprang out on the plains The views were immensely wide. Everything that you saw made for greatness and freedom, and unequalled nobility
The chief feature of the landscape and of your life in it, was the air looking back on a sojourn in the African highlands, you are struck by your teeling of having lived for a time up in the air. The sky was rarely more than pale blue or violet, with a profusion of mighty, weightless, ever-changing clouds towering up and sailing on it, but it has a blue vigor in it, and at a short distance it painted the ranges of hills and the woods a fresh deep blue. In the middle of the day the air was alive over the land, like a flame burning: it scintillated, waved and shone like running water, mirrored and doubled all objects., and created great Fata Morgana. Up in this high air you breathed easily, drawing in a vital assurance and lightness of heart. In the highlands you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be.