"Picture book without pictures" - Enonai Ehon

...Many of his fairy tales have become idiomatic phrases and have become part of everyday Danish life. Other collections of light-hearted short stories such as "The Picture Book Without Pictures" (1840) are also not to be missed. Now that his diaries and letters have been published, research on Andersen the person is becoming more and more popular, even more than 100 years after his death.

*Some of the terminology used in reference to "picture books without pictures" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…童話の多くは慣用句となってデンマークの日常生活に溶けこんでいる。このほか《絵のない絵本》(1840)のような軽いタッチの小品集も見のがせない。日記や書簡集も世に出た現在，死後100年以上を経過してなお，人間アンデルセンの研究はますます盛んである。…

※「《絵のない絵本》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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