Andersen's fairy tales have a unique artistic style, namely poetic beauty and comic humor. The former is the dominant style and is mostly reflected in eulogizing fairy tales, while the latter is mostly reflected in satirical fairy tales. The following is the introduction to the origin of Andersen's stories and fairy tales that I brought to you. I hope you like it!
Introduction to the author of "Andersen's Fairy Tales" 1
Andersen (full name Hans Christian Andersen) (English name: Hans Christian) (1805-1875), Andersen is a Danish A famous fairy tale writer in the 19th century and the founder of fairy tales in world literature. He was born in a poor shoemaker family in Odense. He studied at a charity school and worked as an apprentice in his early years. Influenced by his father and folk oral literature, he loved literature since childhood. When he was 11 years old, his father died of illness and his mother remarried. In order to pursue art, he came to Copenhagen alone at the age of 14. After eight years of hard work, he finally showed his talent in the poetic drama "Alfsol". Therefore, he was sent to Slagelsee Grammar School and Helsingo School for free by the Royal Theater of Arts. It lasted 5 years. In 1828, he entered the University of Golhagen. After graduation, he never had a job and mainly relied on royalties to make a living. In 1838, he received the Writer's Prize - a non-public service allowance of 200 yuan allocated to him by the state every year. Andersen never married and died of illness on August 4, 1875 at the home of his friend, the businessman Melchor.
Andersen's literary career began in 1822. In the early days, he mainly wrote poems and plays. After entering university, his creations became increasingly mature. He has published travel notes and musical comedies, as well as poetry collections and poetry plays. In 1833, he published the novel "The Improvisational Poet", which won him international reputation and is his representative work of adult literature.
"In order to fight for the future generation," Andersen decided to write fairy tales for children and published "Stories for Children." In the following years, a collection of such fairy tales was published every Christmas. After that, he continued to publish new works until he gradually stopped writing due to cancer in 1872. In the past 40 years, he has written a total of 168 fairy tales.
Andersen's fairy tales have a unique artistic style: poetic beauty and comic humor. The former is the dominant style and is mostly reflected in eulogizing fairy tales, while the latter is mostly reflected in satirical fairy tales.
Andersen's creation can be divided into three periods: early, middle and late. Early fairy tales are mostly full of beautiful fantasy and optimistic spirit, reflecting the characteristics of a combination of realism and romanticism. His representative works include "The Tinderbox", "The Flowers of Little Ida", "Thumbelina", "The Daughter of the Sea", "The Wild Swan", "The Ugly Duckling", etc. In the middle period of fairy tales, the fantasy component is weakened and the realistic component is relatively enhanced. In lashing out the ugliness and praising the good, it expresses the persistent pursuit of a better life and also reveals the melancholy of lack of confidence. Representative works include "The Little Match Girl", "Snow Queen", "Shadow", "A Drop of Water", "Mother's Story", "The Puppet Show", etc. Fairy tales in the late period are more face to reality than those in the middle period, focusing on describing the tragic fate of the people at the bottom and exposing the coldness, darkness and injustice of social life. The tone of the work is sombre. His representative works include "Dream Under the Willows", "She's a Waste", "Bachelor's Nightcap", "Lucky Belle", etc.
Growth process 2
On April 2, 1805, Andersen was born in Odense, Denmark. His father was a shoemaker and was frail and sickly. My mother was a few years older than my father and was a washerwoman. The family lives in a small house. Under the liberal education environment of his parents, especially his mother's doting, Andersen showed his imagination ability very early. He built a toy theater in his home and made clothes for his puppets, while he read every play he could borrow, including works by Ludvig Holberg and William Shakespeare. Later he even memorized all of Shakespeare's plays (source requested).
When Andersen's father passed away in 1816, he left all the shoemaking tools to Andersen. Andersen also dropped out of school and stayed home. During this period he served as an apprentice to a weaver and a tailor, and also worked in a cigarette factory, where anecdotal reports claim that his colleagues jokingly called him a girl and even took off his pants to inspect him. It is confirmed that on Easter 1819, Andersen began to think about his future at St. Canute's Cathedral in Odense, a city in the northern port of Funen, Denmark. Because he wanted to become an opera singer, he went to Copenhagen in September 1819. Because of his good voice, he was hired by the Royal Danish Theater; but soon his voice broke and he was unemployed. It is said that at first he was regarded as a lunatic in the theater, so he was ignored and almost starved to death.
However, he received help from musicians Christoph Weyse and Siboni, and later from poet Frederik Hoegh Guldberg (1771-1852). Although his dream as a singer was shattered, he was accepted as a dance apprentice at the Royal Netherlands Theater. At the same time he began to write.
As he became lazy, he gradually lost the love of Frederik Hoegh Guldberg; but at this time Andersen began to get the help of Jonas Collin, the director of the Royal Theater, and the two of them became lifelong friends. friend.
King Frederick VI became interested in this strange boy and decided to send Andersen to the grammar school in Slagelse for several years. Before setting off, Andersen published his first book: "Ghost at Palnatoke's Grave" (1822). The reluctant underachiever remained at Slagers until 1827 and then went to another school in Elsinore. He still behaved strangely and unsociably in school, and his teachers often scolded him. He later described these years as the darkest and most painful period of his life. Finally, Colin finally let him graduate. Afterwards, Andersen went to Copenhagen.
Writer's Experience Three
After his friends decided that his eccentricity would not lead to good results and gave up hope in Andersen, he finally published a relatively successful novel in 1829. "A Walk from the Holmen Canal to the East Point of Amager", followed immediately by a farce and a volume of poetry. After these three works, he could no longer write. In 1833, the King of Denmark gave him a small living allowance, and Andersen used the money to roam Europe for the first time. In Le Locle, in the Jura, he wrote "Egnet and the Mermaid". In October 1834, he arrived in Rome, Italy.
In early 1835, Andersen published his first novel "The Improvisational Poet" and became famous. In the same year, the first part of Andersen's fairy tales was published in Copenhagen, and the other parts were published in 1836 and 1837 respectively. The value of these stories was not immediately recognized, and their sales were abysmal. At this time, Andersen published a more successful novel "O. Te" (1836), and a large number of drafts of "Swedish Landscape"; in 1837 he published his best novel "Just a Fiddler".
At this time, he began to turn to drama. Although the time was short, it awakened his talent and wrote the famous miscellany "Picture Album without Paintings" (1840).
Andersen was a great traveler; his furthest journey, between 1840 and 1841, took him through Germany (during which he took a train for the first time), Italy, Malta, and Greece, arrived at Constantinople. Return via the Black Sea and Danube River. His important work "A Poet's Market" (1842) and the travel book that is generally regarded as the best travelogue he ever wrote were based on this travel experience.
At the same time his most famous fairy tale had begun to be written. The second part begins in 1838, and the third part begins in 1845.
Although his social status in Denmark was still questioned by some in 1845, Andersen was already very popular in Europe. He made his first visit to England in June 1847 and was a social success; when he left, Charles Dickens personally sent him to Ramsgate Pier.
Shortly after that, Dickens published "David Copperfield". It is said that the character Uriah Heep was based on Andersen; at least that character, like Andersen, was left-handed.
Later Andersen continued to publish many works, but he still hoped to become an excellent novelist and playwright; he despised "fairy and elf stories", although that was his only talent. Despite this, he continued to create works of this type, and from 1847 to 1848, two new works appeared. After a long period of silence, in 1857 he wrote another novel, To be or not to be. In 1863, after an interesting trip, he published another travel diary, In Spain.
His "Fairy and Elf Stories" were still being published one after another, until Christmas of 1872, when the final story was completed. That spring he fell out of bed and was seriously injured from which he never fully recovered. He died peacefully on August 4, 1875, in a house called Rolighed near Copenhagen, Denmark. After his death, he was buried in Assistens Cemetery in Copenhagen, Denmark.
In Western countries, stories such as "The Ugly Duckling", "The King's New Clothes" and "The Princess and the Pea" have long been household names, but only a few people can name their authors. Like the stories of Charles Perrault, they have become the most common heritage of mankind, and like the works of the Brothers Grimm, they have become true folktales.
Four works of Andersen's life
In August 1822, he published the work "A Collection of Attempts", which contains three poems, plays and stories. This collection has no chance of publication due to its humble background, but it has attracted the attention of some people in the cultural field.
In October, I entered a secondary missionary school for cultural remedial studies. I studied for six years and felt very painful about the education method. However, during these six years, I read a lot of famous works and also practiced composing poems and operas. In 1827, he left school and returned to Copenhagen. Published poems, praised by upper-class critics, inspired Andersen's confidence in writing.
In 1829, he wrote a long fantasy travelogue "Wanderings on the Island of Amager" and published it. The first edition sold out. The publisher immediately bought the second edition at favorable terms, and Andersen was freed from the oppression of hunger. The comedy "Love on Nikolayev Towers" is performed at the Royal Opera House. In the same year, he also published his first collection of poems.
In 1830, first love failed. Began traveling; second book of poems published.
From 1831 to 1834, love failed again and his mother died. Soon after, he published a long autobiographical novel "The Improvisational Poet".
In 1835, when he was 30 years old, he began to write fairy tales and published his first collection of fairy tales. It was a 61-page booklet, including "Tinderbox", "Little Claus and Big Claus", "The Princess on the Pea" and "Little Ida's Flowers" *** four chapters. The work did not receive unanimous praise. Some people even thought that he did not have the talent to write fairy tales and suggested that he give up. But Andersen said: "This is my immortal work!"
In 1844, he wrote his autobiography. Sex work "The Ugly Duckling".
In 1846, he wrote "The Little Match Girl".
"Lucky Belle", the longest work in his later period, was published in 1970, with more than 70,000 words. It was written based on his own life experiences, but it was not entirely autobiography.
In 1867, he was elected as an honorary citizen by his hometown of Odense.
At 11 a.m. on August 4, 1875, he died of liver cancer at his friend's country house. The funeral was extremely sad and honorable. He died at the age of 70.
Catalog of Andersen's works:
Novel (6): "The Improvisational Poet" (1835), "O.T." (1836), "Only a Fiddler" (1837) , "The Two Baronesses" (1848), "To Live or to Die" (1857), "The Lucky Man" (1870).
Libretto (25): poetic drama "Afsol" (1822?), "Love in the Bell Tower of St. Nicholas Church" (1829), opera "The Bride of Lammermoor" (1832 ), the opera "The Raven" (1832), the verse drama "The Mermaid of Egnat" (1834), the vaudeville "Farewell and Reunion" (1835), the opera "The God of Sproo" (1839), " "Mulatto" (1840), "The Moor's Daughter" (1840), "The Flower of Happiness" (1844), one-act poetic drama "The King's Dream" (1844), "The Bird in the Pear Tree" (1845) , "Little Kirsten" (1846), "A Wedding on the Como River" (1848), a comedy in four acts "More Precious than Jewels" (1850), an opera "Nordic Goddess" (1850), "New Property" "(1850), "The Sandman" (1850), comedy "Heldmore" (1851), comedy "Eldermother" (1851), comedy "Not of Highborn" (1863), comedy "Long Bridge" (1863) , the three-act play "The Spanish Guest" (1865), the one-act play "The Newcomers" (date unknown), "Nights of Rosquirida" (date unknown).
Travel Notes (6): "A Walk from the Holmen Canal to the East Point of Amager Island in 1828 and 1829" (1829), "A Journey to Sweden" (1851), "Scenery of Spain" ( 1863), "Visit to Portugal" (1866).
Autobiography (3): "Biography" (1832), "The True Story of My Life" (1847), "My Fairy Tale Life" (1855).
Poetry (4): "Collected Poems" (I, 1829), "Collected Poems" (II, 1830), "Fantasy and Reality" (1830), "Twelve Months of the Year" (1832).
A total of 156 fairy tales
Detailed information:
His first "Fairy tales," Told for Children), which includes "The Tinderbox", "Little Claus and Big Claus", "The Princess on the Pea" and "Little Ida's Flowers", was published in the spring of 1835. In 1837, two more stories were added to this collection and compiled into Volume 1 of Fairy Tales. The second volume was completed in 1842, and another "Picture Album without Pictures" was written in 1847.
From 1840 to 1857, Andersen visited Norway, Sweden, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Asia Minor and Africa, and wrote many travel notes during the journey, such as: "A Poet" "Market" (1842), "Swedish Scenery" (1851), "Journey to Spain" (1863), "Visit to Portugal" (1866), etc. He met many well-known writers and artists in Germany, France and other countries. In 1847, he met Dickens in England.
Andersen wrote three autobiographies: the "Short Biography" (1926) written in 1832, the "Main Biography" published in Germany in 1847, and the later "Biography" (1855). Most of the novels and fairy tales are also autobiographical, such as "The Improvisational Poet", "O.T" (1836), "Nothing But a Fiddler" (1837), "The Two Baronesses" (1848), "To Live or to Live" Not to Live" (1857), "Lucky Belle" (1870), etc. In his works such as "Dream Under the Willow Tree" (1853), "Ib and Little Christine" (1855), "She is a Waste" (1853), he also wrote about the lives of workers such as shoemakers and washerwomen. Life reflects his own unfortunate life experience and experiences, and at the same time expresses the social contradictions in Denmark, which is of profound reality and people's nature. H.C. Andersen (Hans Christian Andersen) is a famous Danish fairy tale writer in the 19th century and the founder of fairy tales in world literature. He was born in a poor shoemaker family in Odense on April 2, 1805. He studied at a charity school and worked as an apprentice in his early years. His father was a poor shoemaker who volunteered to fight against Napoleon's invasion. He died of illness when Andersen was 11 years old (that is, in 1816) after being discharged from the army. The mother, who was a washerwoman, remarried soon after. Andersen was tortured by poverty since he was a child. He worked as an apprentice in several shops and had no formal education. Influenced by his father and folk oral literature, he loved literature since childhood and dreamed of becoming a singer, actor or playwright. In order to find your own way out and realize your heart's wishes. In 1819, when he was 14 years old, he left Odense, which made him extremely depressed and contradictory, but gave him the inspiration to embark on the path of art, and came to the capital Copenhagen alone. He started out as a minor supporting actor at the Royal Theater in Copenhagen, but was fired because of a loss of moisture in his voice. From then on, he turned to study writing, but the script he wrote was completely unsuitable for performance and was not used by the theater. In 1822, he received funding from theater director Jonas Colin and studied at a grammar school in Slierse. The difficult road of life did not shake his faith, but instead made his heart surge with more excitement. This year he wrote the book "Youth's Attempt", which was published under the pen name of Wilhelm Christian Walter. This pseudonym included the names of Shakespeare, Andersen himself, and Scott. Published his first poem "The Dying Child" in 1827. In 1828, he entered the University of Golhagen. After graduation, he has never had a job and mainly relies on royalties to make a living. His first important work, "A Walk from the Holmen Canal to the East Point of Amager Island in 1828 and 1829", was published in 1829. This is a travelogue with a sense of humor, and is quite similar to the writing style of the German writer Hoffman. The publication of this travelogue gave Andersen initial recognition from society. Thereafter he continued to write plays. After eight years of hard work, he finally showed his talent in the poetic drama "Alfsol". Therefore, he was sent to Slagelsee Grammar School and Helsingo School for free by the Royal Theater of Arts, which lasted for 5 years.
In 1831, he traveled to Germany and wrote travel notes on his way back. In 1833, he went to Italy and wrote a poetic drama "Egnet and the Mermaid" and a novel "The Improvisational Poet" (1835) set in Italy. The novel was translated into German and English soon after its publication. It won him international reputation and is his representative work of adult literature. In 1838, he received a writer's bonus and the state allocated him a non-public service allowance of 200 yuan every year.
In 1843, Andersen met the Swedish singer Jenny Lind, and their sincere friendship became an inspiring force in his creation. But he was not a bed of roses in his personal life. He never married. His closest friends in later life were Henrik and Melcher. On August 4, 1875, Andersen died at Melcher's mansion in Copenhagen.
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