Isak Dinesen Posted on 01/04/201026/03/2010 by Iansã The moral thrust of Dinesen’s tales leads here, to a representation of life as performance–a necessary fiction. In her pliable and accommodating theater, the truth is found in the design of the stories we tell in order to understand whom we might become. Throughout her career, with both the fiction and nonfiction, Dinesen is urging us to recognize the reality of the artificial. And when we really start searching for the truth in stories, we can find it everywhere, not just in sincere confessions but in the deliberate lies and imagined possibilities, the magic and fantasy and all the other unreal elements that go into the concoction of identity. Axé. Rate this:Share this: Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on X (Opens in new window) X Like Loading... Related