Three loves in Andersen's life
Ha, let me tell you, there are people like me who like to know these ancient things and ancient characters
As for Andersen's life, what others say about homosexuality is ultimately what others say. It's not that he has never been in love, it's just that this love has never been responded to by the woman he deeply loves.
Let’s talk about his character first. Andersen is a shy and introverted person (it gets better when he gets older, or rather after he has achieved some achievements), but he is easily excited emotionally. Even when he grows up, he will shed tears due to a little emotional fluctuation. This creates The beauty of his heart and the suffering in the future. In Denmark at that time, class and distinction between rich and poor were the creeds of life. Andersen's family was poor. This situation can be seen in his story "She is a Waste". The prototype of the washerwoman in it was his remarriage after the death of his biological father. The mother worked hard to support her son, but once he grew up, he had to be ashamed of his background. After being confirmed at the age of fourteen, he left his hometown for Copenhagen. Since then, he has been lonely, with no money and no relatives there, but he struggled to pursue his dream of becoming an actor. After failure, he turned to literature. The families he stayed with at that time were all celebrities at that time. He was a poor boy, and his education was very poor. Even a child could see the spelling errors in his Latin, so he had to bow his head. In addition, Andersen was not a handsome man when he was a boy, and he may not be so in the future. He has been as thin as a stork since he was a child, and has a big nose. This is an unspeakable pain. Of course, there are many ways to do it. To comfort and relieve, but the shadow on the soul has been cast long ago. It was such a Andersen who began a difficult life
Of course, like us, Andersen had a girl he liked when he was very young, but that was not love. His first love affair was in 1830. He fell in love with Liba Voight (also translated as Libo Voight), the sister of Voight, a college classmate. She was already engaged, but he didn't know it. This woman admired his talent and loved to show off her girlish charms. Andersen gradually felt that he could not live without her. Voight groaned in his heart, and he made it clear
"My sister is already engaged and can't change it. Poor Andersen! My sister's joke is too big! It seems that she likes to be in It’s a great time before getting married. But why don’t you think about how devotedly Andersen loves you?”
He wrote to this woman to propose, and she wrote back
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"I'm very sorry for you, please don't make me an unfortunate person! I can be your good friend and good sister, and do my best to serve you."
Such a scenario It has been shown in "Ib and Little Christine", "Dream Under the Willow Tree" and "The Bachelor's Nightcap". This is how his first love ended, but he kept Liba's letters and the messages from the relationship throughout his life. note. He was already 25 years old at that time, and it was the late autumn season in Denmark. He had to silently heal the pain in his heart and recover from the pain silently. The love and sorrow of a lonely person are not worthy of humanity. , and those silent feelings in his heart were annihilated forever
The second relationship was in January 1833, when he was 28 years old. The woman was Louisa, the daughter of Colin (also translated as Gu Lin). Colin could be regarded as his mentor and talent. However, although Andersen was already famous at that time, everyone knew that the writers were all destitute and poor in the end. His humble background also dissatisfied the Colin family, and Louisa did not seem to love him. The end of the story is that Louisa soon married a lawyer, and Andersen traveled to Europe in April until the following year. Return to Denmark in September. This love was silent, and he had no time to express his admiration. Later, when writing "Dream Under the Willow Tree", he repeatedly said in the text that "men should speak first" in love. Perhaps this originated from this moment. feelings, but he will eventually understand that even if he speaks first, sometimes he will get bitterness and pain. When fate wants to be like this, the words "Maybe I should believe it is fate" are right. Even though the girl was gone, he kept thinking about her. In the spring of 1837, he wrote "The Daughter of the Sea" based on this experience. The girl who lost her tongue and spoke silently in love was him
Not that a man and a woman will fall in love when they are together, nor can every feeling be erased gently. In the next 10 years, he was lonely, but he gained a great reputation. In 1840, he and the Swede I met Jenny Lind. She was a singer, known as the "Swedish Nightingale", but she was very cold. In the spring of 1843, she came to Copenhagen and was a little scared. Andersen encouraged her to perform, and she received a crazy welcome. , their friendship started like this, but in the end, this friendship did not reach love. When he wanted to express his love, she diverted the conversation, and the enthusiasm slowly turned into disappointment. His love was limited to Plato. /p>
Spiritual love, treating her as an artistic partner, and wrote "The Nightingale" for her. At this time, he was almost 40 years old. After that, he spent a lot of time on the road, traveling, traveling, traveling all his life. He loved his children and believed in religion, and his love was transferred like this
In the fairy tale "Butterfly", he wrote: "This butterfly has never married a wife. He has been looking for his lover for too long. A person should not be like this. This butterfly has become an old widower."
", he never had his own home and stayed in a friend's home, where he looked for the joy that could be obtained and suffered the sorrow of life
At 11:5 on August 4, 1875, this The fairy tale king stopped breathing in the home of his friend Melchior, and all the love and sorrow drifted away with him.
This is the ancient fate. It is both a blessing and a curse. It gives one thing and takes away the other. It is close but inaccessible. The end of love is only pain and separation.