![]() “Babette’s Feast” is certainly such a tale, recounting the story of two sisters, Martine and Philippa, from girlhood to old age, and preparing these characters for one remarkable feast bestowed on them and their friends by their mysterious French housekeeper and cook, Babette Hersant. ![]() She could easily follow her characters across decades of their lives, to arrive at the moment that crystallized their destiny. ![]() Notably, Dinesen wrote in English and then translated her own works into Danish (so you won’t see any translator credited).Īs a teller of tales, Dinesen did not restrict herself to any brief time interval. “Babette’s Feast” first appeared in a magazine, the Ladies’ Homes Journal, in 1950, and it was again published in 1958 in a story collection called Anecdotes of Destiny. ![]() Anyone who has read that book, or seen the 1985 film of it, knows that, at the end of her time in Africa, she returned to her native Denmark where she would live out her days crafting her famous memoir as well as an impressive host of short stories. ![]() “Babette’s Feast” is a short story by Isak Dinesen ( Karen Blixen), the Danish author whose real life experiences managing a farm in British East Africa (colonial Kenya) led her to write Out of Africa (1937). ![]()
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