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Living a Fairy Tale; The bicentennial of Hans Christian Andersen's birth brings a spate of new works revealing his darker side.
From: Newsweek International
Date: 20041122
Author:Flynn, Emily
Byline: Emily Flynn
Once upon a time there was a lonely writer from Copenhagen whose stories were filled with tragedy. His heroines died or suffered dismemberment, and critics panned his conversational writing style. Soon, however, sanitized translations of his tales became best-selling children's books in the neighboring lands of Germany and Britain. The Danish hailed their storyteller as the genius creator of a new literary genre: eventyr, or fairy tales. But among Copenhagen's 19th-century elite, he was still seen as an outsider--the lowly son of an alcoholic washerwoman. ...
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