Talk:Dan Andersson

In 1902, on his trip to the US, Andersson was something like 14 years old. Describing him as "unemployed and poor" kind of gives the wrong impression. If I remember correctly, he was sent to the US by his parents to check for a possible better future. I need to check my sources though. // Habj 22:37, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

i can confirm this (there do exist some letters in the Dan Andersson-Museum in Ludvika (Svweden)making that totally clear. These are some kind of reports.

Further it is defnetly not true that Dans Family was poor - even though Dan several times points this out. His father (teacher) did not earn fortunes - but the family had a by far better income than the surrounding farming- or coaling- families. It is for example just redicoulous when Dan says his family just did own one book - the bible. It can be taken for sure that Dans father did posess quite many books. Even the fact that the family could afford to send Dan to America - just in order to check out the possibilities for the family - may be taken as a hint that the family did have money. Even the fact that they did not emigrate is a sign that the family did not live under bad conditions.

Even as a young author Andersson was not really poor. F.e. he did spend quite a fortune for his first desk. Pretending beeng poor and coming from simple conditions should be regardet as some sort of "promotion-trick". As an author origining from a higly literate home would just have not been so special. Even his interests (Religion->Socialism) seem to move a little bit according to the possibilities the one or the other point of view offers. Andersson is clearly following the Zeitgeist.