About the book: 2013 / The great Danish storyteller entered our lives as a child - and remained in it forever. Although at first he himself did not value his fairy tales at all, considering them “winged trifles.” From his pen came poetry, vaudeville and librettos, stories, travel notes and novels, but it was fairy tales that brought him popularity, and the fairy tale of his life began to gradually take shape. The reader will learn how this happened from this book, which tells about a happy man, a singer of the tenderness and splendor of life, whose frequent saying in his letters and diaries was the desperate and sorrowful: “It would be better if I had never been born!” And the reader also learns that Andersen never considered himself exclusively a children's writer, although over time, and probably with some regret, he began to suspect that it was fairy tales that would bring him worldwide fame. However, even if the great storyteller had not written a single fairy tale, all his other works now allow us to consider him not only one of the founders of modern Danish literature (and even before his old age he wrote in his native language with errors!), but also - why is he so always passionately desired - Poet.sign of information products 16+