Ehrengard

by Isak Dinesen

Book Overview

A fairy-tale set in the early-19th century in the Grand Duchy of Babenhausen. The story revolves around the desire of the court painter, Herr Cazotte, to seduce Ehrengard, maid of honour to Princess... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226152936
• ISBN13: 9780226152936
• Release Date: December 1975
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Fascinating

The last book of the baroness show that her literary skills were in pristine condition until her last days. In this book, the author will ponder if it is possible to percibe in the glimpse of a second the timelessness of eternal beauty, as well as how can we become a part of something-someone that is not us? Is that the reason why love is a fools game? This questions and several more are placed before the reader while in the surface the tale is just narrating how Herr Cazotte, will try to seduce Ehrengard. Not by having sex with her - that would be to crude and common for an artist like him - rather he will try to show her by means of a portrait, that her inner self was captured by his art in a painting while she was bathing naked in a secluded lake.