B. Traven: Portrait of a Famous Unknown by Golo

B. Traven: Portrait of a Famous Unknown

His life belonged to him, only. His books belonged to the public.B. Traven: Portrait of a Famous...
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Author: Golo
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B. Traven: Portrait of a Famous Unknown by Golo

B. Traven: Portrait of a Famous Unknown

CHF 26.93

B. Traven: Portrait of a Famous Unknown

CHF 26.93
Author: Golo
Format: Paperback
Language: English

His life belonged to him, only. His books belonged to the public.


B. Traven: Portrait of a Famous Unknown is a graphic biography that tells the larger-than-life story of the German revolutionary, actor, and writer known as B. Traven (1882-1969). Despite his commercial success as a best-selling writer, Traven managed to keep his identity a secret during his lifetime. It is now generally accepted that Traven was in fact "Ret Marut" (another psudonym), a German stage actor and editor of an anarchist newspaper in Germany called Der Ziegelbrenner (The Brickburner). As Marut he was a major participant in the short-lived Bavarian Council Republic of 1919-20. Barely escaping execution, he fled Germany and lived incognito for the remainder of his life. His entire literary work, a great commercial success in its day, combines lively and often humorous storytelling with radical critique of capitalism and nationalism. His best-known work, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, from 1927, was adapted for film in 1948 by John Huston.


Golo's account of Traven's life, rendered with stunning artwork, begins and ends with his ashes being dropped from a plane over the Lacandon jungle in Chiapas, Mexico, just a quarter century before the explosive uprising of the Zapatistas seemed to echo his deepest wishes.




Author: Golo
Publisher: PM Press
Published: 11/05/2024
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 10.40h x 7.50w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9798887440552

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