Imitates and Surpasses: Intertextual Reading of A Child Who Sells His Smile

摘要

A Child Who Sells His Smile is the German children's literature writer James Kruss' masterpiece. The novel has distinct intertexuality characteristics. James Kruss extensively absorbed Germany, Italy and other European classical works of writers nutrition. His novel not only imitated but also beyond the framed structure of Arabian Nigths and Decameron. On the basis of imitate and learn A Man Who Sells His Shadow and Cold Heart, He had formed his own creative features.