Hans Christian Andersen was a master of other literary forms
besides the fairy story - in particular, the novella for an adult
readership. The Ice Virgin (1862) is the most ambitious and
searching of all his narratives. Its subject is Switzerland, which
Andersen saw as a paradigm of the human condition. The relationship
between a gifted young climber-hunter from the remote Bernese
Oberland and a prosperous miller's daughter from a comfortable
French-speaking canton plays out themes such as instinct versus
reason, daring versus security, the role of early experience in
shaping identity. In the terrifying Ice Virgin and her eerie
minions, with their implacable hatred of humankind, we have a
glimpse of the fairy tale Andersen. But this is a thoroughly
absorbing story of the real world. In his Afterword Paul Binding
situates The Ice Virgin in its author's life and work and explains
why he places this novella in the first rank of world literature.
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