Blixen’s Out of Africa is a memoir without picnics. But Sidney Pollack and his screenwriter Kurt Luedke have added two picnic episodes that reveal Blixen’s characteristic vanity and romantic nature.
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See Isak Dinesen [Karen Blixen]. Out of Africa (New York: Random House, 1938); Sidney Pollack. Out of Africa (1985). Screenplay by Kurt Luedke adapted from Errol Trzebinski’s Silence Will Speak, Judith Thurman’s Isak Dinesen, and Isak Dinesen’s memoir Out of Africa. Errol Trzebinski. Silence will Speak, A Study of Denys Finch Hatton, and his Relationship with Karen Blixen (Chicago University of Chicago Press 1977); Judith Thurman. Isak Dinesen: The Life of Karen Blixen, Storyteller ( New York: Penguin 1984)