[DISCUSSION] How much of your country's classic national literature have you read?

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 :)