B. Traven: Portrait of a Famous Unknown -- Golo

<p><b>His life belonged to him, only. His books belonged to the public.</b></p><br><p><i>B. Traven: Portrait of a Famous Unknown</i> 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 <i>Der Ziegelbrenner</i> (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, <i>The Treasure of the Sierra Madre</i>, from 1927, was adapted for film in 1948 by John Huston.</p><br><p>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.</p><br><br><br><b>Author:</b> Golo<br><b>Publisher:</b> PM Press<br><b>Published:</b> 11/05/2024<br><b>Pages:</b> 144<br><b>Binding Type:</b> P