Blue Jar, the (1942) [Short Story]
by Isak Dinesen
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The daughter of a nobleman is rescued from a sinking ship by a young man and spends several days at sea alone with him. When he is subsequently sent away by her father, she spends the rest of her life searching for a piece of blue china in a particular shade of blue - the blue she remembered from the days spent at sea.
This is a tale-within-a-tale written as part of her story "The Young Man with the Carnation". It stands on its own, however, and has been published by itself in several anthologies.
Appears in Imperial Messages and Sudden Fiction International.
Original title: The Blue Jar
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Genre: Fiction→ General Fiction→ Literary Fiction/classics
This work is a subwork of the following works :
Imperial Messages (1976) [Anthology]
Authors: Edgar Allan Poe
, Fyodor Dostoevsky
, Franz Kafka
, Pär Lagerkvist
, Samuel Yosef Agnon
, Isaac Bashevis Singer
, Elias Canetti
, Elie Wiesel
, Gabriel García Márquez
, Paul Bowles
, Julio Cortázar
, Italo Calvino
, Jorge Luis Borges
, Isak Dinesen
, Nikolai Gogol
, Duane Ackerson
, Jerzy Kosinski
, Isaac Babel
, George MacDonald
, Bertolt Brecht
, Hans Christian Andersen
, Günter Kunert
, Christoph Meckel
, Heinrich von Kleist
, Marguerite Yourcenar
, Kobo Abe
, Hans Carl Artmann
, Wolfgang Hildesheimer
, Jakov Lind
, Tommaso Landolfi
, Marie Luise Kaschnitz
, Marco Denevi
, Reinhard Lettau
, Russell Edson
, Enrique Anderson Imbert
, Martin Buber
, Juan José Arreola
, Antonin Artaud
, Pierre Bettencourt
, Marvin Cohen
, Kirby Congdon
, Bob Dylan
, Lawrence Fixel
, Gust Gils
, Lars Gyllensten
, Cecil Helman
, Zbigniew Herbert
, Edmond Jabès
, Eugene Jolas
, Daniil Kharms
, Rachel Kubie
, R. Yehoshua Lovaine
, Milos Macourek
, W. S. Merwin
, Henri Michaux
, Barton Midwood
, Mohammed Mrabet
, Slawomir Mrozek
, Multatuli
, Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav
, Paul van Ostaijen
, I.L. Peretz
, Isaac Rosenfeld
, Jerome Rothenberg
, Andreas Schroeder
, Howard Schwartz
, Miguel Serrano
, David Slabotsky
, Robert Thompson
, Roland Topor
, Krishna Baldev Vaid
, Britton Wilkie
, Charles Schwartz (ii)
Sudden Fiction International (1989) [Anthology]
Authors: Yasunari Kawabata
, Heinrich Böll
, Nadine Gordimer
, Bernard Malamud
, Donald Barthelme
, Gabriel García Márquez
, Margaret Atwood
, Doris Lessing
, Joyce Carol Oates
, Paul Theroux
, Julio Cortázar
, Italo Calvino
, Jorge Luis Borges
, Isak Dinesen
, Mark Helprin
, Monica Wood
, Clarice Lispector
, Josef Škvorecký
, Stuart Dybek
, Jamaica Kincaid
, Colette
, Bessie Head
, Peter Handke
, Barry Yourgrau
, Bharati Mukherjee
, Jeannette Winterson
, Dino Buzzati
, Peter Carey
, Slawomir Mrozek
, Luisa Valenzuela
, Richard G. Brautigan
, Ann Beattie
, R.K. Narayan
, Leslie Norris
, Spencer Holst
, David Michael Kaplan
, David Brooks
, Krishnan Varma
, Kenneth Bernard
, Patricia Grace
, Panos Ioannides
, Hernán Lara Zavala
, Yuan Ch'iung-chiung
, Rodrigo Rey Rosa
, Talat Abbasi
, Paul Milenski
, Denis Hirson
, Ron Carlson
, Edla van Steen
, Feng Jicai
, Paulé Bartón
, Fernando Sorrentino
, Siv Cedering
, Daniel Boulanger
, Sergei Dovlatov
, Barbara Alberti
, Julio Ortega
, J. Bernlef
, Bai Xiao-yi
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