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Yet like her loss in Africa, her malady also became, paradoxically, a major spur and source of her creativity, as she suggested through her wry description of her syphilis as a sign of the ‘pact she made with the devil in exchange for the gift of story-telling.’ It is hardly surprising that her tales appear so frequently inflected or infected by a poetics of illness, giving new meaning to the ‘decadence’ often associated, rightly or wrongly, with her literary corpus. ![]() When Karen Blixen contracted syphilis from her husband in 1914, it was to prove a fatal event in every sense: she would suffer for the rest of her life from the progressively debilitating effects of the disease. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His research interests include monasticism, hagiography and Latin poetry. ![]() He teaches in the Department of History at the University of Colorado at Boulder, with a courtesy appointment in the Department of Classics. 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