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A review by blueyorkie
The Complete Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
5.0
Andersen's Tales are not tales. The proof is that sometimes they end badly. Those who know the Walt Disney version, a cartoon for popcorn eaters, have not had access to the universe of this Danish storyteller, who flirts with his readers' unconscious by dragging them into his dreams and nightmares.
Populated by street children, fabulous animals, and hideous or evil creatures, his tales are closer to Edgar Poe than to the world of Care Bears.
Andersen talks about our anxieties, desires, difficult paths to beauty and truth, and pure souls who struggle against discouragement, fear, darkness, stupidity, and contempt.
He does it as a poet, not as a moralist or a philosopher; he does it with humor, irony, tenderness, or melancholy. He speaks to the hearts and the imagination with shepherdesses, tin soldiers, nightingales, and swallows.
Eye Ole Farm Week or Little Ida's Flowers are my favorites.
They open the door to the imagination for those who want to make themselves small enough and enter it.
Populated by street children, fabulous animals, and hideous or evil creatures, his tales are closer to Edgar Poe than to the world of Care Bears.
Andersen talks about our anxieties, desires, difficult paths to beauty and truth, and pure souls who struggle against discouragement, fear, darkness, stupidity, and contempt.
He does it as a poet, not as a moralist or a philosopher; he does it with humor, irony, tenderness, or melancholy. He speaks to the hearts and the imagination with shepherdesses, tin soldiers, nightingales, and swallows.
Eye Ole Farm Week or Little Ida's Flowers are my favorites.
They open the door to the imagination for those who want to make themselves small enough and enter it.