The novel’s hero, Antonio-much like Andersen himself-rises from impoverished beginnings to become a successful artist, at every turn learning charming and often alarming lessons in the ways of the world.Īdopted by a nobleman, smitten with an opera singer, challenged to a duel, captured by bandits, beset by a temptress, Antonio follows a dizzying itinerary on his path to enlightenment and, perhaps, happiness.
Andersen, the captivating teller of enchanted tales, is very much in evidence in this classic Bildungsroman inspired by his travels in Italy earlier in the decade. Published to great acclaim in 1835, Hans Christian Andersen’s debut novel, The Improvisatore, initially eclipsed his fairy tales, which first appeared in the same year. A semi-autobiographical novel inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s travels in Italy-and one of the author’s best-known works in his native Denmark
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