"生命本身即是一则美丽的童话"
“Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.”
拜访童话大师安徒生
我在2005年圣诞 节当天抵达安徒生的出生地奥登塞.
从丹麦哥本哈根坐火车到奥登塞，需1小时29分。
1805年汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生在此地(奥登塞)出生,今年是安徒生200周年诞辰.
小時候的安徒生，家境十分貧困，父親是個鞋匠，在他十一歲時病逝。父親去世後,母親改嫁.十四歲的安徒生就離開故鄉到首都哥本哈根謀生。
年青时代他梦想成为哥本哈根皇家芭蕾舞团的演员，但他没能成为独舞者，而移到了小说和童话的阵地，在那里，他完整地演绎了自己。
作家生前也是个旅行家, 旅行的时候，他揣着赤诚之心，每到一处都留心记载生命和历史。旅行是安徒生一生中惟一没有离弃的爱. 他在长达70年的人生道路中，前后29次出国旅行，87次在国内旅行。
安徒生终生未成家室，1875年8月4日病逝于朋友——商人麦尔乔家中。
“But he has nothing on at all,” said a little child at last.
from The Emperor’s New Suit
“可是国王什么衣服也没有穿呀！”一个小孩子最后叫出声来.《国王的新衣》(1837)
《海的女儿》中“美人鱼”的形象
“Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.” from The Ugly Duckling (1844)
只要你曾经在一只天鹅蛋里待过，就算你是生在养鸭场里也没有什么关系。《丑小鸭》 (1844)
“Thousands of lights were burning on the green branches, and gaily-colored pictures, such as she had seen in the shop-windows, looked down upon her. The little maiden stretched out her hands towards them when the match went out. The lights of the Christmas tree rose higher and higher, she saw them now as stars in heaven."
from The Little Match-Seller (1846)
绿枝上点着几千枝细蜡烛，一些彩色画，就像她在店铺的橱窗里见过的，从上面望下来。小女孩向它们伸出手去，但是火柴熄灭了。圣诞树的烛光越升越高，越升越高，最后成了天上的星星。《卖火柴的小女孩 》(1846)
"It was a very wonderful trunk; no sooner did any one press on the lock than the trunk could fly. He shut the lid and pressed the lock, when away flew the trunk up the chimney with the merchant’s son in it, right up into the clouds. Whenever the bottom of the trunk cracked, he was in a great fright, for if the trunk fell to pieces he would have made a tremendous somerset over the trees."
from The Flying Trunk《飞箱》((1838)
"Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead."
Hans Christian Andersen
汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生