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Critical Reflections about Hans Christian Andersen, the Failed Revolutionary
From: Marvels & Tales
Date: 20060101
Author:Zipes, Jack
For years the public image of Hans Christian Andersen in North America has been associated with images of Danny Kaye singing "I'm Hans Christian Andersen" in the popular 1952 Samuel Goldwyn film. Happy-go-lucky, adored by children, compassionate, innocent, and modest, the cinematic Andersen is a total fraud, and this is made abundantly clear in the two most recent biographies by Jackie Wullschlager (2000) and Jens Andersen (2005), who depict the famed fairy-tale writer as a tortured individual. Indeed, Andersen had very little to do with children and had an enormous but fragile ego. He was ...
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