Andersen's frustrations
May was a man whose ambition was to be a writer had the highest regard and to this end he wrote poems, plays, books viiajes, a novel, and about one hundred stories about those he said were trifles, trinkets, and so not exactly what I wanted to be worshiped.
These stories include "The Ugly Duckling," "The Steadfast Tin Soldier," "The Red Shoes," "The Brave Little Tailor," "The Little Mermaid," "The Emperor's New Clothes," "The Princess and the Pea ", etc.
Andersen was born in the Danish city of Odense in 1805 and grew up in a one-room house in the poorest part of town. His father was a shoemaker. First was a shoemaker, and then mad, ymurió when Hans was eleven. About the mother does not know anything. The paternal grandmother who cared for him, was a liar and grandfather was reputed to be the fool of the city.
Andersen had few friends and spent most of his time alone. To help his family went to work in a cloth factory where workers loaded it all day. It appears that Andersen had, as a kid, an extraordinary voice of soprano, and liked to sing while working. He did until the boys pulled down the pants "to see if there was a girl."
At fourteen, almost like a beggar went to Copenhagen in search of work. He found a patron in the person of an Italian opera singer who was an assistant until she started taking singing lessons at the Royal Theatre. There, the enthusiastic director ien with Andersen singing became his tutor and also a kind of father. But Andersen was devoted to singing.
By that time began to write. At seventeen, he published a short story, then came a book entitled: "Travel on foot from the Holmen Canal to the eastern tip of Amager" which was a fantastic story in the style of Hoffman. Then came the novel "The improviser" which was well received by critics but was hardly welcomed by the public.
The turning point of his career came with the publication of the first volume of his fairy tales. But that fame came to compensate, as he himself said, the misfortune that caused him appearance and shyness.
Andersen was tall and frail, his arms and legs were disproportionately long, and his feet were giganteacos. Strangers on the street stopped and pointed out "look that has legs." His bouts of depression were common had many phobias.
Terrified by the possibility that the live eterraran asked his friends to cut an artery before being placed into the cajón.Ante any illness usually leave a note on his bedside table that said: "I'm dead only appearance. " Andersen was one of the most sought-after authors, could be a friend of Dickens and was host to many royal courts. Andersen never had a sexual experience.
Once in Naples in 1834 wrote in his diary: "Tremendous feelings of sensual desire and an internal battle, but I'm still innocent blood burns, I'm sick. Happy to have a wife." Approach them fearing their presence saying that no one was worthy, Andersen was unable to start any relationship. Wrote: "I will remain alone whole life as a poor thistle and be spat on by others because I had the misfortune to have thorns."
There were three women in Andersen's life and hardly looked. The first was twenty years and was the sister of a classmate. Andersen was a year younger than she fell in love. He dedicated some poems for an answer but no more than disdain for writing. Then came the daughter of his tutor, who was 18 years. Started talking to her and then fell in love. She showed no interest. Andersen ceased to write letters of love, she said any correspondence should be revised his by his older sister, which was a very common practice at that time.
And Hans, embarrassed, inhibited by the possible public reading of his love letters, stopped writing. And then came a singer nicknamed "the Swedish nightingale," Andersen flooded poems and gifts, followed in many their presentations until they got some neighborhood. The only record of that neighborhood that captured the Swedish singer was that of friendship, and one day Andersen told how happy she was that she was marrying. Andersen was destroyed.
his old age, although full of praise and honors, was rather sordid love affairs. When he traveled to Paris sometimes visited a brothel. They chatted politely with the naked prostitute. If someone insinuated I should do something more than simply just talking was shocked, and offended.
lived his years in Copenhagen últims always alone. When he died in 1875 wore around his neck in a leather pouch. Inside had a letter from the first of the three women they fell in love (the sister of his classmate.) Some say it was the letter in which she refused his love, but they are guesses. The letter was immediately destroyed at the express wish of the deceased Andersen.
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