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Past present. (Hans Christian Andersen's 'The Little Mermaid')
From: The Nation
Date: 19920511
Author:Cravens, Gwyneth
Hans Christian Andersen's 'The Little Mermaid' is subversive in that it reveals love to be a transforming experience full of pain and sacrifice. Unlike the banal version of the Walt Disney movie, Andersen's Little Mermaid seeks a soul and learns to turn away from the temptations of darkness.
Since "The Little Mermaid," by Hans Christian Andersen, was first read aloud to me by my mother when I was 4 or 5, I've read it over and over-to myself, to my own daughter and to other children. I always forget that it's a tale. It seems instead an immediate, intimate part of my life, yet suspended ...
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