Danish actress Connie Nielsen She will not be foreign to Latvian viewers either: she can be seen in rather bright and memorable roles in Hollywood blockbusters such as “Gladiators”, “Wonder Woman” and the most recent blockbuster “Nobody” crowned by Bob Odenkirk. This year, the television channel “Viaplay” offered the actress’s latest work, the miniseries “The Dreamer – Becoming Karen Blixen” created by herself, in which she entered the life of the most famous Danish writer in the world, Karen Blixen. The portal “Delphi” had the opportunity to invite the actress for a short conversation.
Danish writer Karen Blixen, whose biography and literary works are used as the basis of “The Dreamer” series, is often mentioned as one of the most prominent representatives of Danish literature, along with Hans Christian Andersen, Søren Kierkegaard and Peter Hague. Latvian readers cannot feel left out in this regard: since the mid-1990s, Blixen’s books have been published in Latvian in Pētera Jankava’s translation with enviable regularity, and this was crowned by the “Last Stories” collection published last year. year.
“Everyone in Denmark reads Karen Blixen as a teenager,” says Connie Nielsen, who is not only the lead actress of the series, but also the producer and author of her idea, when asked about her personal connection with the writer’s lyrics. “I was so fascinated by her ability to create an almost melancholy existential experience. Her sense of language is extremely subtle. In my youth, her work left an indelible impression on me.”
Literary critic Guntis Berelis called the writer’s stories “virtuous baroque stylization” and “postmodern simulation” with a strong influence from the authors of the Romantic era. But probably the best known and most appreciated is his autobiographical work “Far from Africa”, in which Blixen recounts his life in Kenya, where he grew coffee. There she spent more than 15 years, from 1914 to 1931, when the plantation was destroyed by fire, forcing the writer to leave her beloved Africa.
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