Reviews about Hans Christian Andersen
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Fairy-Tales
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"Look here! We are at the beginning now. When we get to the end of the story, we will know more than we do now. It was a wicked troll, it was one of the really bad ones, it was the Devil." Now that is an introduction. Written by a devilishly clever craftsman of sentences. He could write fairy tales so that everything good in them seemed better and everything bad seemed worse. The tale of the poor, virtuous, and innocent children Kay and Gerda, who are best friends parted by the intervention of the Devil, but who as adults find each other again through open-heartedness and guileless purity, is a virtuoso display of enchanting and playful language but not a straightforward, artistically-complete tale.
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Karsten R. S. Ifversen, Politiken 2000-01-04
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Being courageous is about conquering your fears. Hans Christian Andersen did not only do that with his fire rope and the note pinned to his chest, stating "I only look dead," he did so, when he cast himself into the unknown – both in his art and in the most literal sense. [. . .] Like all great writers, Hans Christian Andersen would write and write letters until he could no longer hold his pen. He reaches effortlessly through time to touch our hearts, even in the 21st century. He is one of us, at our worst and at our best. Hurry off to your bookstore!
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Klaus Rifbjerg, Information 2000-05-20
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