Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2018
Abstract
The publication, the first and so far only Czech book about Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales, was motivated by the inauspicious state of the reception of his fairy tales in Czech. It pursues one major goal: to introduce Andersen's fairy tales as sophisticated literature for grown-ups.
The tales are treated as short stories that draw inspiration from German Romanticism, yet take a significant step into the literature of modernity or even literary modernism. In this respect the book goes hand in hand with the latest findings of scholars in Denmark and all over the world who have plausibly anchored Andersen's fairy tales in modernity.