Most countries have a canon of Great or Classic national literature.

  • Sims@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    I haven’t looked at my county’s canon (Denmark), but tbh I assume it’s mostly neo-liberal propaganda by now, so i’m not in a hurry to explore…

      • Sims@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        No :-) I mean, there must have been some reading in school tho, and I have been read to as a kid oc, so I remember the gist of the most famous stories, but I know other ‘fairytale’ authors just as well/little as HCA.

        I can’t remember how many stories he wrote, but it’s a lot. With the little memory i have, I have a weak sense that he was actually more of a philosopher/critic and just wrote societal criticism as children stories. ‘Emperors new clothes’ is an obvious example of real life behavior.

        Anyway, I suspect that I would need to go back to Authors at least 70 years if I want to skip the worst US liberal influence, and even more to get rid of UK influence. Not sure how much Danish culture we really have in our canon - or if I just don’t like my anglo/saxon danish culture that much. Maybe the latter.

        I would rather look at Chinese/Russian/whatever culture, so I could learn thoughts and ideas far removed from the anglo/saxon western nightmare.

        I’m rambling a bit and need to sleep. Cheers :)

        • frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.mlOPM
          2·
          10 months ago

          at least 70 years if I want to skip the worst US liberal influence, and even more to get rid of UK influence. Not sure how much Danish culture we really have in our canon - or if I just don’t like my anglo/saxon danish culture that much. Maybe the latter.

          Bad news for you lol: Germanophilia is a big theme in 18th and 19th-century Danish literature