Carroll Eventyr

Heikki Raudaskoski hraudask at zombie.oulu.fi
Fri Feb 24 08:20:04 CST 1995



Just a suggestion: 'eventyr' means, of course, 'fairy-tale', or
'adventure' in Danish; and 'eventyr' is, as some of you may
know, how H.C. Andersen called his texts. So, could this (among
other connotations) hybridically refer both to Hans Christian 
Andersen and Lewis Carroll, two among the greatest 1900th century 
storytellers; and isn't _GR_, among  other things, a "Carroll 
fairy-tale"; with the distinction that superterranean "normal world" 
and subterranean Wonderland mix irrevocably. (And, although the 
Grimm brothers have influenced _GR_ a lot, and explicit Carrollian
resonances have been shown, one could possibly also find many
Andersenian threads in it; I have to think this over.) 
      
Heikki



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