Amherst Bulletin: A literary update: UMass professor offers first English translation of noted Danish novel since 1845
By
Steve Pfarrer
Amherst Bulletin
December 13, 2018
When he first read “The Improvisatore” (in Danish) in the late 1980s, Hugus said, “I was blown away. It was an exciting story, which I hadn’t expected … or that [Andersen] was such a formidable observer of nature, of art and of people.”