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"Our time is the time of the fairy tale": Hans Christian Andersen between Traditional Craft and Literary Modernism
From: Marvels & Tales
Date: 20060101
Author:de Mylius, Johan
The position held by Hans Christian Andersen in world literature is that of a children's author. In Scandinavia, and to some extent also in Germany, France, and Eastern Europe, there is an awareness that Andersen was much more than that: a poet, first of all, known to some extent as an author of novels, travelogues, and poems, but still unknown as the prolific writer of stage plays, which he was throughout his professional life.
In general, Andersen's fame is based on ten or twelve stories conceived of as fairy tales and, to his misfortune, often mixed up with stories by the Brothers Grimm. ...
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