When Tutelary Tales ( Formynder-fort?llinger ) was first published in Denmark in 1964, a reviewer wrote, "If Danish were a global language, I believe Tutelary Tales would rapidly gain a world-wide audience." That is likely to happen now that Paula Hostrup-Jessen has translated into English this collection of striking short stories by Villy S?rensen, whose position as a leading Scandinavian writer was confirmed when he won the 1986 Swedish Academy...