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B. Traven - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Traven's widow said that Traven had something like ten identities and "loved to tangle things up." The story notes that the identity of "Ret Marut" can be traced back to 1907, and that neither Traven's widow nor anyone else really knows who he was before that. Traven wrote many novels, including The Death Ship and the epic Jungle Novel series, which is a description of government corruption and an Indian uprising set at the birth of the Mexican revolution. On the basis of their writing styles, it has been suggested that Traven was a pseudonym for the German anarchist Ret Marut, who published an underground magazine in the last years of the Weimar Republic. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/B._Traven   (658 words)

MexicoFile.com Upon Traven’s death in 1969, his ashes were scattered over Rio Jatate in Chiapas, and his widow, Rosa Elena Lujan, was instructed to reveal that B. Traven was in fact Traven Torsvan Croves, born in Chicago in 1890 and naturalized as a Mexican citizen in 1951. Traven’s biographers consider several possible identities: Either he was born in Chicago, March 5, 1890, to Swedish parents, and spent his youth in Germany where he started writing anarchist literature under the pen name Ret Marut, moving to Mexico in the ‘20's. Traven was long a cult figure by the time I stumbled onto his legendary adventure novels about Mexico while traveling the gringo trail in the ‘70s. www.mexicofile.com /btravenmanofmysterybehindthetreasureofthesierramadre.htm   (1236 words)

LitWeb.net Traven's widow announced in 1990 that he had been Ret Marut, a left-wing revolutionary in Germany during World War I. According to one theory, Traven was born in Chicago to Swedish parents, spent his youth in Germany, and settled in Mexico in the 1920's. Some investigators believe that B. Traven was the pen name of Otto Feige, the son of a German pottery worker from Schwiebus (now Swiebodzin, Poland), who travelled widely and worked variously as a manual labourer, actor, and the editor of an anarchist journal. Traven's will stated that he was Traven Torsvan Croves, born in Chicago in 1890 and naturalized as a Mexican citizen in 1951. www.biblion.com /litweb/biogs/traven_b.html   (2043 words)

Historiallisia Papereita 12 : Tapio Helen Traven himself, in letters to his publishers and readers in the 20's, said that he was American and specifically not German. Traven refused to give information about himself, his letters were always typed with only a hazy signature written by hand, later even the signature was typed. So Traven writes in the autumn of 1925 to his publisher that he has readied the novel Death Ship, but the manuscript is in English; he says he can procure a German translation swiftly. www.helsinki.fi /hum/hist/yhd/julk/traven01/traven.html   (9243 words)

B Traven - Resources on the Revolutionary Novelist B Traven was the name used by a German writer and storyteller who produced a series of novels in the 1920's and 1930's, mostly set in Mexico. There are separate pages on Traven's life, books and politics: but one of the theses being put forward here - anathema to most purely literary commentators, and all biographers, for whom Traven's politics are an irrelevant embarrasment - is the dialectical unity of the processes that formed both the man and his work. This outcome was the unintended but probably inevitable result of Traven's obsessive secrecy, and the radical re-inventions of himself which he undertook at least twice. www.voiceoftheslug.org.uk /travenhome.html   (600 words)

B. Traven - TheBestLinks.com - Anarchist, Europe, German language, Humphrey Bogart, ... Traven was an enigmatic novelist who wrote in German, and who is most famous for having written the novel that was the basis for the Humphrey Bogart movie The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. On the basis of comparing writing styles, it has been suggested that Traven was a pseudonym for the German anarchist Ret Marut, who published an underground magazine in the last years of the Weimar Republic. In any case, it is clear that Traven, like the American authors Thomas Pynchon and JD Salinger, delighted in his personal anonymity. www.thebestlinks.com /B._Traven.html   (251 words)

Life of B Traven Traven was powerfully affected by contact with the Indian tribes of Chiapas and frequently returned there for long journeys, alone, in subsequent years. Traven comments at length on Huston's script and Huston travels to Mexico City where Traven turns up in his hotel room one morning, claiming to be Croves, with an authorisation from Traven. Traven demurred "so that he could write in peace" and on the grounds that a woman could not translate his books. www.voiceoftheslug.org.uk /travenlife.html   (4832 words)

B. Traven Mystery Traven’s works are not strangers to the shelves of American bookstores, still, I don’t think that his work gets the recognition it deserves at the university or community college level. Traven is said to have been born in the United States; Chicago to be exact. When it comes to teaching Traven, one can rest assured that the only way to discover anything at all about the author himself is to explore his works. www.wmich.edu /dialogues/themes/btravenmystery.html   (1397 words)

[lbo-talk] Re: What revolutions are made of.... Given that B. Traven was active in the IWW - the omission of even considering this possiblity has to be deliberate. It may have been Travens exploration of hte mystery of the rarity of revolution; no answers of course - but given that we don't have such answers today it would have been rather much to expect. Read the old Houston Chronicle series "Lost at Sea" for the race to the botoom that has impoverished and killed many sailors; you could definitely take the basic plot, and update it with a fishing or freight vessel operating under a 21st century flag of convenience. mailman.lbo-talk.org /2003/2003-May/013769.html   (396 words)

Trozas Traven was not, by any means, an advocate of the capitalist and imperialist mentality that he saw in the government in Mexico at the time. There are many books available on B. Traven himself, and there are also quite a few books that cover the Diaz regime, which is when the stories take place. This is the fourth book in a series of six books by B. Traven called The Jungle Series. www.wmich.edu /dialogues/texts/trozas.html   (906 words)

Steppin' Out Traven, the author of the book from which the film was adapted, was tremendously secretive. Following Traven's death in 1969, the author's estate, managed by his widow, maintained the mystery surrounding the writer. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is probably best known as the 1948 film, directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart in a tale of three American expatriates in Mexico whose partnership to prospect for gold is threatened by one partner's greed. www.svcn.com /archives/lgwt/20040414/stepout_profile.html   (750 words)

Swans Commentary: B. Traven's "The Jungle Novels," by Louis Proyect - lproy08 While B. Traven made numerous mistakes that reflected both his political prejudices (the Indians tend to be romanticized) and his inability to master the intricacies of Indian history and society, his ability to dramatize their story and win support for their cause cannot be underestimated. Most people get their first exposure to B. Traven indirectly through the film "Treasure of the Sierra Madre," which was based on one of his early novels. Swans Commentary: B. Traven's "The Jungle Novels," by Louis Proyect - lproy08 www.swans.com /library/art9/lproy08.html   (2714 words)

B. Traven's The Bridge Gales -- a recurrent Traven hero -- is on an alligator hunting mission, although we never see any hunting or gators as he becomes distracted by a local tragedy when staying with a fellow American called Sleigh in a remote Indian village. But let me just draw attention to one early example of Traven’s technical incompetence: in the first chapter Gales is ambushed and disarmed by an unnamed gringo, then later he encounters an American called Sleigh, whom he knows from elsewhere. We know utopianism is part of the human spirit, but the romantic excesses of this bush rat Traven are ridiculous. www.culturecourt.com /B/Trials/TheBridge.htm   (1842 words)

Amazon.co.uk: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Film Ink S.): Books B Traven's magnetic tale of material lust and ruthlessness among friends is his best known book, largely thanks to John Huston who immortalised it on film in 1948. At the same time, B Traven's greatest book is tense, funny and liberating. The peeling images of the dosshouses and the keen insight into the social factors behind Dobbs' plight mark Traven as a sympathetic proletatrian writer to rival the likes of Orwell, Steinbeck and Henri Charriere. www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1853753459   (533 words)

Overstock.com, save up to 80% every day! Traven evokes the backbreaking daily routine of the monteria, brings alive the players in this sordid drama, and confirms his stature as one of the narrative masters of the twentieth century. Traven, B. Description: Trozas, here translated into English for the first time, completes the set of B. Traven's legendary Jungle Novels. Traven, B. * Some orders go through our fraud prevention department. www.overstock.com /sm---pg-PRODUCT_pi-810515_ti-82125.html   (269 words)

B. Traven  -  Bentley Publishers - Automotive Books and Repair Manuals Many who had not associated Traven with the enormously popular film of The Treasure of hte Sierra Madre were delighted to discover a powerful and gifted novelist in the tradition of Conrad. Traven - Bentley Publishers - Automotive Books and Repair Manuals One version held that Traven was a German writer held in high esteem in pre-Nazi Germany. www.bentleypublishers.com /author.htm?id=66   (448 words)

Traven, B. on Encyclopedia.com Magazines and Newspapers for: Traven, B. Traven--: el hombre que nunca olvidó: la persona agazapada detrás de ese nombre, B. Traven, es a su vez otras personas y la misma, siempre buidiza. El enigmatico B. Traven: atizo una de las leyendas literarias mas duraderas del siglo pasado y dejo una decena de novelas esplendidas y muchas preguntas hasta hoy sin respuesta.(escritor)(Biografia) On his passport, he claimed his given name was Berick Traven Torsvan, though this is now thought to have been another subterfuge. www.encyclopedia.com /html/T/Traven-B1.asp   (422 words)

Shakespeare Fellowship Discussion Boards: B. Traven I believe Traven is mentioned in one or more Oxfordian essays about the possibility of unknown authorship, but don’t have bookmarks for that particular topic and didn’t find those pages this morning. As he talked with Croves, Huston began to suspect that he was in fact B. Traven himself, though he was unable to voice his suspicion. During his lifetime, the identify of B. Traven was unknown. www.shakespearefellowship.org /ubbthreads/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/12471/page   (408 words)

Amazon.com: Government: Books Traven continues to strike a balance between despair and hope with this story set in rural Mexico. Treasure of the Sierra Madre by Traven earns 5 stars, but Government seemed to be setting the stage for a larger landscape of characters and events. Readers who ignore the genius of B. Traven do so at their peril. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/156663038X?v=glance   (738 words)

Traven, B (subject at ISBNdb.com) Traven; edited by Rosa Elena Lujan and Mina C. and H. Arthur Klein Anonymity and death: the fiction of B. Traven Here are some of the most recently loaded books on this subject, you can also see all 5 matching books on a separate page. isbndb.com /d/subject/traven_b.html   (90 words)

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The film was based on, and is quite faithful to the novel of the same name (1927 in German, 1935 in English) by the enigmatic, anarchist-leaning German-English bilingual author B. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre was one of the first films to be shot almost entirely on location outside the U.S.(though the night scenes were filmed back in the studio). No 20th century author ever lived and died in quite such a state of personal obscurity and mystery. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Treasure_of_the_Sierra_Madre   (730 words)

Triton College Undergraduate Center: Assembly Line by B. Traven Note: B. Traven is a fascinating writer because of his obsession with protecting his identity. Traven, The Man and the Mystery (American University) and B. There are several websites dealing with B. Traven, including the ones at B. academics.triton.edu /uc/traven.html   (4593 words)

The Germanic Review: Ret Marut: the early B. Traven.@ HighBeam Research The novel 'Das Totenschiff' was published under the pseudonym B. Traven in 1926 and the true identity of the author was long one of the mysteries of German literature. Following his death in 1969, his widow confirmed that Ret Marut was B. Traven. The Germanic Review: Ret Marut: the early B. Traven.@ HighBeam Research www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:13294693&refid=holomed_1   (214 words)

m0570.xml Mina Klein also wrote Traven a few times and was answered by a Señor Martinez, whom she strongly suspected was Traven. What Klein labeled as “original,” especially in his correspondence with B. Traven, was often the carbon copy of his original letter. This is arranged chronologically within each subsection: correspondence with B. Traven; with Traven's widow and publishers; and with Traven scholars, libraries, Klein's attorney, newspapers. www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/spc/xml/m0570.xml   (1002 words)

B. Traven Traven (Karl S. Guthke; translated by Robert C. Sprung; ISBN: 1556521324; $24.95; 100% match) My search for B. Traven (Jonah Raskin; ISBN: 0416007414; 98% match) Click on a subject to see other books listed with the same subject or to drill down into components of the subject -- such as geographical locations, dates and so on. isbndb.com /d/book/b_traven_a02.html   (238 words)

Quoth the Traven: More musings on mysterious writer If there were no questions, there would be no lies." B. Traven wrote that, and there's nothing mysterious about it. Stone's book on the mysterious Traven, a man so reclusive he makes Thomas Pynchon look like a gladhand, contains the only interview Traven ever granted - - assuming it was Traven, of course. A new edition of her book includes Stone's essay "My Second Thoughts About B. Traven," so who knows? www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/09/21/DD155955.DTL   (433 words)

DVD Verdict Review - The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre If Croves was Traven, Huston found him about the dullest person he'd ever met, so maybe Traven was right in insisting his books speak on his behalf, and we should just leave well enough alone. Well, he may have been Hal Croves, a technical adviser on The Treasure of the Sierra Madre who claimed to be Traven's agent but whom Huston suspected of being Traven himself. Fred C. Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart) and Bob Curtin (Tim Holt) are hard-luck American expatriates scratching out livings in Tampico, Mexico by taking the odd construction job or begging for food money from their wealthier countrymen. www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/treasuresierramadre.php   (2019 words)

EntWagon.com : Famous quotations from B. Traven, famous sayings, quotable words, thoughts, poetry EntWagon.com : Famous quotations from B. Traven, famous sayings, quotable words, thoughts, poetry If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. www.entwagon.com /cgi-bin/quotes/author.pl?auth=B._Traven   (56 words)

The B. Traven Page from the Anarchist Encyclopedia / Daily Bleed The B. Traven Page from the Anarchist Encyclopedia / Daily Bleed recollectionbooks.com /bleed/Encyclopedia/TravenB.htm   (20 words)

Blogcritics.org: Book Review: The Death Ship by B Traven Blogcritics.org: Book Review: The Death Ship by B Traven Since I had to take a test on it, I knew that Traven was kind of a pinko socialist activist and author. He wrote TOTSM as a kind of critique on capitalism and greed, etc. The story is about goldminers, after all. blogcritics.org /archives/2005/08/11/000845.php   (470 words)

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