THE LIFE AND POWER OF STORIES: HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN AND ION CREANGĂ (CASE-STUDY)
THE LIFE AND POWER OF STORIES: HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN AND ION CREANGĂ (CASE-STUDY)

Summary/Abstract: Telling stories is the best way to teach, to persuade, and even to understand the culture of peoples, very similar and different in their tradition. The story of childhood is written by two national symbols of Danish and Romanian literature. The power of reading a story change the way in which life could be understood. The present study about The life and the power of stories: Hans Christian Andersen and Ion Creangă (A case study) underline the fact that the magic of great literature has the power to transform the meaning. Defining the childhood universe from the inside part of its knowledge, through the fairy tales and the subjectivity of their memories, Ion Creangă and Hans Christian Andersen are two reference authors for the knowledge of the classical literature from their country. In the history of Romanian and Danish culture, the two writers who lived in the nineteenth century remained famous grace to the fact that they are the creators of the childhood’s fairy tales from everywhere. Although they never met, Hans Christian Andersen and Ion Creangă have experienced the grace of writing and of reliving childhood years through writing, recounting with talent that all their experiences happened really in their time of wonderful world stories, "in the great, wonderful, time of fairy-tale." (Andersen, The Dryad). This study is a comparative approach which focuses on their personal mythology of the birthplace, of their family and teachers, of their first readings and their passion for theater and writing.

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