Hans Christian Andersen: The Life of a Storyteller - Couverture souple

Wullschläger, Jackie

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 014028320X ISBN 13 : 9780140283204

Editeur : Penguin, 2001

Synopsis

The first English language biographer to have returned to the original Danish sources, Wullshlager creates a fascinating picture of Andersen as a deeply troubled man, as far from Danny Kaye's all-singing version as it is possible to imagine. Desperately sensitive, sexually confused and socially awkward, Andersen found grace and acceptance through the creation of a distinct and beguiling literary world, becoming, as was once said of Tolkien, 'the creative equivalent of a people'. Wullschlager's achievement is to demonstrate the unity of his troubled life and and the soaring achievement of his work. He appears in this biography more various and more flawed, but also more convincing and more impressive, than ever before.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jackie Wullschläger is Chief Art Critic of the Financial Times. Her books include the prize-winning Hans Christian Andersen: The Life of a Storyteller (2000) and Chagall: Love and Exile (2008), which won the Spear's Biography of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize. She lives in London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 014028320X
• ISBN 13: 9780140283204
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 552
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Penguin; https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/; ; CL MODESTO LAFUENTE 41; Madrid; Madrid; Espagne