Babettes Feast (Penguin Modern Classics)

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Paperback , 99 pages. Published February by Penguin Modern Classics first published To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Babette's Feast , please sign up. Lists with This Book. Radnja "Babetine gozbe" odigrava se u Jan 05, Duane rated it really liked it Shelves: Best known for her award winning memoir Out of Africa , Karen Blixen also wrote several other works. It's the story of a French woman, exiled during the political upheaval in her country, who seeks asylum in a small Norwegian village with two pious sisters.

But Babette has a secret, and when good fortune smiles upon her, she uses her secret to repay the Best known for her award winning memoir Out of Africa , Karen Blixen also wrote several other works. But Babette has a secret, and when good fortune smiles upon her, she uses her secret to repay the sisters who took her in.

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View all 3 comments. Dec 07, Bfisher rated it it was amazing Shelves: This is an astonishingly good story, there is an awful lot packed into a small space. What I enjoyed most about this story is the sustained irony, the way that familiar things are stood on their heads, and how well the writer plays variations on a theme. A great deal of this story's effect depends on familiarity with some once well-known Christian themes and images, which may make it less accessible for some.

View all 6 comments. This was a short novella about a young woman Babette who finds shelter from the civil war in France with two sisters. She stays for many years, cooking the bland food the expect but than asks a favor. She wants to prepare a French feast for the women and their guests on their Father's birthday. Enjoyed this very much. There is some subtle humor and even a bit of a mystery. Who really is this mysterious Babette? Why at her dinner do the guests find themselves changing?

Quite a good story from an a This was a short novella about a young woman Babette who finds shelter from the civil war in France with two sisters. Quite a good story from an author I have long wanted to read. Feb 18, Chrissie rated it liked it Shelves: This is absolutely wonderful!!!!

This novella is only 52 pages long. There is no possible excuse for not being able to find time to read this book. I remember the wonderful movie, but this is even better. The characterizations of the people are funny and moving. Add it to the top of your reading lists. I have read about half, 25 pages. I read Out of Africa ages ago. Was it this good?! Should I reread it?

Oh, it was too short! I got interested and then a door This is absolutely wonderful!!!! I got interested and then a door was slammed in my face. The movie adds more, and that is good. But the person writing this review, me, doesn't like short stories. If you like short stories or short novellas it is wonderful. Not only does it deal with culinary art, and it is an art, it also deals with how people of different cultures view and judge each other.

Not being a cook myself, it was the latter theme that I fastened upon. The prose is wonderful. It has a style that fits the time and place, a teeny village at the northern edge of Norway in the mid s. I will give you an example so you can judge: Her mistresses at first had trmbled a little, ust as the Dean had once done, at the idea of receiving a Papist under their roof.

But they did not like to worry a hard-tried fellow-creature with catechization; neither were they sure of their French. They silently agreed that the example of a good Lutheran life would be the best means of converting the servant.

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In this way Babette's presence in the house became, so to say, a moral spur to its inhabitants. They had distrusted Monsieur Papin's assertion that Babette could cook. In France, they knew, people ate frogs. They showed Babette how to prepare a split cod and an ale-and-bread soup; during the demonstration the Frenchwoman's face became absolutely expressionless. But within a week Babette cooked a split cod and an ale-and-bread soup as well as anybody born and bred in Berlevvaag.

The idea of French and luxury and extravagance next had alarmed and dismayed the Dean's daughters. The first day after Babette had entered their service they took her between them and explained to her that they were poor and that to them luxurious fare was sinful.

Their own food must be as plain as possible Often it concerns cultural differences. The ending of the book I very much liked this book, but it was way, way, way too short. That is why I am reducing the stars. It is probably just me who has a hard time with short novels. View all 60 comments. Still as mystifying as when I first read it 15 years ago, but a much better read this time around because I've had those last 15 years to explore obsecure cuisines and cooking methods from around the world and learn their histories and origins. With that background, I now have a better appreciation of Babette's feast, which was her gift and sacrifice.

The movie is good too btw. May 31, Paula Vince rated it it was amazing Shelves: Martine and Philippa are austere, elderly sisters who still retain traces of their former ravishing beauty. Their father was a strict Puritan minister, and they had devoted their lives to serving with him. Babette is their unassuming French maid who has won a windfall in the lottery. Instead of leaving the sisters, as they fear, she chooses to treat them and their guests to a sumptuous feast.

Although all the money will be blown in one night, Babette insists there is nothing she would rather do. Martine and Philippa have serious misgivings, but let her go ahead. A story doesn't have to be long to pack a powerful punch. For a start, you can almost smell the fragrance of the French banquet cooking. She intends to serve dishes such as Potage a'la Tortue Turtle Soup , Blinis Demidoff pancakes with caviar and Cailles en Sarcophage quail in puff pastry with truffle sauce , along with the best vintage wines. To me, the story is also full of far-reaching, theological analogies.

How ironic that the sisters initially assumed they needed to give Babette cooking instructions, and how obediently she always stuck to the limit they set. God may do the same with us, if we insist He stays in a box. It also shows us not to underestimate those who appear quietest and most humble. He's a King Solomon type of character, having achieved everything he'd ever striven for. Decorated, admired and envied, only he knows the depth of his own emptiness. He alone of the guests has the background to grasp the incredible gift of grace which is taking place.

Babette is far more than the person the others think she is. And those who think they're extending grace may, in fact, be recipients of a far larger grace. Most of the others only went along to humour the sisters and their strange housemaid, described as 'the dark Martha in the house of their two fair Marys. Even Martine and Philippa, who consider such luxurious fare a sinful sign of excess, are lavished with the gift. They don't realise the magnitude of what haggard, wild-eyed Babette is giving them - yet she still chooses to give it.

Grace is not contingent on what we have figured out or done, in other words, how deserving we are. It makes no conditions and singles out nobody in particular. Get the sisters' vast understatement, 'It was quite a nice dinner, Babette. It reminds me of the parables of Jesus, which he claimed to have told for the same reason. Yes, I can imagine him beginning, 'There were once two elderly sisters who were still very beautiful. And they had a maid Un pranzo venuto proprio con tutti i crismi. Feb 17, Nola rated it really liked it Shelves: Two older sisters Martine and Philippa have led a puritan lifestyle in 19th century Norway, preserving the memory of their deceased father who was the much-loved Dean of the local Lutheran church.

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