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My Fairy Tale Life: An Autobiography of Andersen (Excerpt)
Andersen beyond fairy tales
Fu Guangming
As Keigwin said in the preface to the English version of My Fairy Tale Life-An Autobiography of Andersen Written by Glenn Jones (1989), "Does anyone know hans christian andersen only through a very limited number of fairy tales? In fact, at first, he won a reputation among foreign readers with novels, plays, poems and essays. While these works are almost forgotten by British and American readers, fairy tales make him immortal. But this autobiography, which he likes to call "fairy tale life" in other books, is really worth reading. When telling his life experience in the first 50 years, he perfectly showed his charming childlike innocence like a fairy tale. His subtle description of his early life in odense and Copenhagen is also full of magic. "
I think, except for a few professional Andersen researchers, most readers in China grew up watching his fairy tales, such as The Daughter of the Sea, The Ugly Duckling, The Emperor's New Clothes, The Little Match Girl and so on. I only know that he is a fairy tale writer who writes in Danish. It seems that he has never written anything except fairy tales in his life. Ye Junjian's translation of Andersen's fairy tales has been circulated for generations and has been a best seller for a long time. Now with the new edition of Andersen's Complete Fairy Tales, the sales momentum is still good.
By chance, when I read the chapter of Andersen in the History of Danish Literature translated by my teacher and friend Mr. Liu Lin, I found that he was not just writing fairy tales for children. It turns out that people used to like painting him. ...