Kolare, tiggare, spelmän – finnmarken och dess invånare i Dan Andersson författarskap
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1999
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Adam Mickiewicz University Press
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Dan Andersson (1888-1920), a poet and writer, has a
large number of enthusiasts in Sweden. Many of his poems were
put to music and they became well - known songs. His lyrics are
said to contain the essence of Sweden - anxiety, melancholy and
existential dilemmas. He lived and wrote in the period of important
political and social transformations which were also reflected
in literature. There are many similarities in the biographies
of Dan Andersson and of the first proletariat writers. Being
himself very poor he commiserated with the poor, the unhappy
and the sufferers. This compassion reflected in his works has
taken the form of philosophical and religious thoughts of human
fate and attitude towards God. The background of Dan Andersson
works is finnmark - a Finnish colony region lying on the
border between the province of Varmland and Dalama. When describing his finnmark Dan Andersson combines realistic pictures
of hard work, poverty and misery with elements of fantasy and
folk beliefs. He also pays a lot of attention to the descriptions of
nature. His heroes are very characteristic: they are charcoalburners,
beggars, fiddlers, shamans and criminals. Each of these
groups is described in a different way.
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Andersson Dan
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Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia vol. 5, 1999, pp. 75-91