Synopses & Reviews
Review
"Few writers whose names we know have written stories which possess the enduring and essential quality of fables. Despite sentimentality (often the fault of translators who missed his irony) and awkwardness, Andersen's fables are as necessary as
Kafka's. Bredsdorff's biography is useful, businesslike, and comprehensive in its attempt to tell Andersen's own tragi-comic story. Of course, we know that the ugly duckling turned into a swan, but the swan, it turns out, was never completely at home with other swans—or with any other bird." Reviewed by Daniel Weiss, Virginia Quarterly Review (Copyright 2006 Virginia Quarterly Review)
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [366]-372) and index.