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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

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Set in Mexico during the revolution, THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE is a story of danger and adventure, mystery and intrigue. It is the tale of three Americans and their search for gold in the rugged Sierra Madres.

Our literature is replete with the romance of riches for free. But in THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE the litany of desire reveals itself in an unusual and ex

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Published June 1st 1984 by Hill & Wang (first published 1927)

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Jan 21, 2010 brian rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Hal Croves, agent to novelist B. Traven, visited the set of his client's film the treasure of the sierra madre. croves had a german accent. he aroused the suspicion of many people, including director john huston. croves swiftly disappeared only to resurface in the 1950s in mexico city. upon his death in 1969 it was discovered that no record of birth for Hal Croves ever existed.

Ret Marut was involved in leftist politics in germany in the 1920s. he was the editor of the radical magazine der ziege...more

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Jul 25, 2009 Rick rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Traven’s classic novel, which became a classic movie, about greed, gold, and violence in the Mexican wilderness, is a thoughtful, entertaining morality tale. The movie followed Traven’s plot and dialogue pretty closely, except for some variation in the ending where the film collapses scenes for economy sake, and for a couple of long, but entertaining mining yarns told by Howard, the grizzled prospecting veteran. So if you have seen the movie, you know not only the plot and ending but you can see...more Traven’s classic novel, which became a classic movie, about greed, gold, and violence in the Mexican wilderness, is a thoughtful, entertaining morality tale. The movie followed Traven’s plot and dialogue pretty closely, except for some variation in the ending where the film collapses scenes for economy sake, and for a couple of long, but entertaining mining yarns told by Howard, the grizzled prospecting veteran. So if you have seen the movie, you know not only the plot and ending but you can see and hear the actors (Bogart, Tim Holt, the great Walter Huston, Alfonso Bedoya) performing the classic lines (“I don’t have to show you any stinking badges!”)

B. Traven, whose biography and even his identity remains a bit of a mystery, has a strong, punchy prose style (Hemingway meets Hammett). He also has a partisan, though not naïve, view of those who thrive and fail along the frontiers of civilisation, where the very rich and powerful, usually by proxy, and the very poor and often desperate play a stacked game where the winners are the usual suspects and the losers everyone else. Howard is wise to the fact that there are two enemies, maybe three, but only one truly matters. The wealthy corporations, the Church, the bandits might get you but if you’re smart and careful you can beat them. The enemy that ultimately gets you is yourself, your own greed, it will turn you against your friends, your partners, yourself. That’s Howard’s warning to his partners Dobbs and Curtin and, when the trio find their fortune and only need to get to Durango safely with it, suspicion and madness emerges from greed’s fertile imagination. Traven has knowledge and affection for the Mexican landscape and people that is evidenced in his writing. Lovely descriptions of the mountains and deserts, of Mexican village life, bring the setting not just authenticity but, as they say, almost rise to the level of a critical character in the drama. Traven occasionally slips in anti-capitalist and anti-Church digs, given Mexico’s history and his sympathies, this is neither surprising nor inappropriate. They are generally brief asides and therefore not particularly disturbing to the tale he is telling. But the main story and almost all of the writing is focused, compelling and vigorous. John Huston got the movie right but B. Traven first got the novel right. The Treasure of Sierra Madre is a very good novel.(less)

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Jan 14, 2009 James rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, lincoln-park-group, favorites, adventure

The author of this book, B. Traven, is a mystery man but his novels are some of the best moral adventure tales that I have ever read. Treasure of the Sierra Madre is his best known novel, probably due to the film version directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart. In it three Americans down on their luck prospect for gold in the Mexican Sierra Madre. A genuinely exciting adventure tale, it is also a psychological novel that takes us through the disintegration of one of the three, Dobbs...more

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Nov 30, 2008 j to the muthafuckin R rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I had kept hearing about how good of an author B. Traven was by many friends, and told of the mystery that surrounds the author - (no one knowing really who B. Traven is, or even if there is more than one author, what country the author originates from or anything else).
And then a friend of mine gave me a copy of this book, and I devoured it. (Not literally)
The story itself is exciting, a page turner, & like a Quentin Tarantino film - it has many layers of several different stories woven thr...more

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Jan 29, 2013 Kathleen rated it 2 of 5 stars

I’m very fond of the movie it inspired, so expected to enjoy this book. I did not. In my opinion the book is actually inferior to the film version. The writing is very uneven--some of it is downright atrocious. I’m not saying the book is without merit, but I approached it with expectations that were too high.

The story as it unfolds here is much darker than it was in the movie. The backdrop is Mexico, whose native population has been exploited for hundreds of years by the Catholic church, only t...more

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May 29, 2011 Vasha7 rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

An uncommon sort of adventure story.

At times, Traven's journalistic roots show, when he seems more interested in depicting the setting of the story and its social conditions than in moving the "plot" along. For instance, in the first chapter, he spends 13 pages describing the Hotel Oso Negro in far more detail than is necessary for the few brief scenes set there. Traven knew the places and people in this story from first-hand experience. It was a wise choice for him to write a novel, even if he...more

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Jun 13, 2010 Hood rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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At first glance this tale may seem less pulpy than the above, but its heart consists wholly of the stuff pulp lives are made of. To wit: losers still looking to win despite lives filled with nothing but loss – and not a damn chance in hell they’ll succeed.

If you’ve seen John Huston’s 1948 adaptation of B. Traven’s desolate 1927 classic, you’ll kno...more

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Jun 10, 2009 Marni rated it 2 of 5 stars

A book club choice, not a thrift shop find. Not an easy read, I thought it was monotonous,but not meaning boring, but meaning monotone, it was written in such a way that even the most sensational events seemed parched. There was no emotion in this book. I do think that maybe this was done in an effort to match the harshness of the landscape he wrote about, but I would have to read more of his books to test this theory, and I am pretty sure that I don't want to.

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Nov 27, 2011 Clark Hays rated it 5 of 5 stars

Mirroring the subject matter, the search for gold, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is a glittering masterpiece appropriately hidden under the dust of history and shifting literary layers filled with nuggets of brilliance that flash and then recede.

One layer is the landscape of the Sierra Madre mountains and he does an admirable job of capturing the physical characteristics of this remote, forbidden area to the extent a glass of cold water helps ease the reading.

Another layer is of Mexico itself...more Mirroring the subject matter, the search for gold, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is a glittering masterpiece appropriately hidden under the dust of history and shifting literary layers filled with nuggets of brilliance that flash and then recede.

One layer is the landscape of the Sierra Madre mountains and he does an admirable job of capturing the physical characteristics of this remote, forbidden area to the extent a glass of cold water helps ease the reading.

Another layer is of Mexico itself, and Traven captures the complexities of life and the attributes of the people – from peasants to dons, from rough necks to the down and out. It was an interesting period and he presents it in a rich, vibrant and respectful way. The detours into the myths of hidden mines and actions of greedy landowners and noblemen and women, set against the actions of wise natives unmoved by the earthly riches is fascinating, and plays well into another favored layer: economic systems.

Traven was clearly influenced by Bolshevism which was setting the world on fire at the time, and his discussion of the oil boom and mining was illuminating. This greed of individuals, magnified into the political systems they create, was fascinating, In fact, only the soldiers willing to execute bandits came off as remotely sympathetic.

The most notable layer had to do with human nature. Howard, Curtin and Dobbs become locked in an uneasy symmetry in which the stress of the mining, the harsh climate and the prospect of fabulous wealth intensified all of their worst tendencies. Especially for the Dobbs, the stress was too much and the thought of personal advancement at all costs became all consuming.

Many have seen the movie and while it remains true to the book in its brutal portrayal of human greed and shortcomings, of morality laid bare, the novel is a so much richer. Although there remain questions of who B. Traven was, one thing is clear: he was a very talented writer.

The most satisfying part of the read is finding those seemingly casual gems tossed in among the shifting layers that surface a new, rich vein of thoughts. “the companionship which they had to endure had become the source of their troubles…”

I was reminded No Exit, written later by Sartre, in which hell is other people. In the Treasure of The Sierra Madre, the harsh, sun-baked hell and the promise of individual wealth increase the torment tenfold. And there were no machetes or cruel bandits in No Exit.
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Dec 18, 2011 Al rated it 4 of 5 stars

You may have seen the movie (if you haven't, you really should; it's great), but have you read the book? Maybe you, like me, didn't know there WAS a book. Well, there is, written in 1927 by an enigmatic author, about whom there is still controversy, and doubt as to who he really was. Mystery about the author there may be, but the fact is that the book itself is excellent. It's set in Mexico, where a down and out drifter named Dobbs is trying to eke out an existence by panhandling and looking fo...more

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May 02, 2012 Miguel Soto rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

¿Qué maldición tiene el oro que le hace tan atractivo y le vuelve tan peligroso? ¿Qué hay en él que hace que el hombre se vuelva loco en su búsqueda? Dos cosas son seguras: algo tiene el oro que provoca asesinatos, robos y demás crímenes; el oro por sí mismo no vale nada, para que valga hay que llevarlo a donde se le asigne valor.

B. Traven (el misterioso, ¿quién sería?), nos lleva a través de México con sus personajes habituales, los gringos en México y los indios, a enterarnos de aquellos dos h...more

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Mar 31, 2012 Steve Evans rated it 4 of 5 stars

In the early 1970s I gave this book to an anarchist friend to read thinking he'd like it as the author was an anarchist. He didn't. He thought it was a "western" or at best a "Mexican", since it was set in Mexico. ?? I asked...what about the oil wells? Where did they come in?

Well, not everyone obviously sees the point of this book, which is about greed and the lengths people will go to for wealth, even the poor, who can be corrupted as easily as the moneybags at the top. Given the hammering the...more

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Dec 18, 2012 Jim Kelsh rated it 5 of 5 stars

What a find this is. Most anyone is aware of the John Huston directed/Humphrey Bogart starring classic movie by this name. Many don't know that it's based on a 1935 novel written by a character named B. Traven. This guy was the whole deal.He may have been born under a different name in Germany in 1882. he may have been a mexican revolutionary. He used several names, he may even have been on the set of the movie. He may have died in 1969.
Be that as is may, he wrote a crackerjack of a novel. This...more

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Jul 18, 2012 Leonard Pierce rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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The mysterious Mr. Traven is one of my favorite authors, to the extent that I evangelize even for his lesser-known stuff, but to the extent he's known by the average reader, it's for this fantastic adventure. If you've only seen the movie...well, I won't like, the movie is pretty great. But the novel contains so much more depth and power, combined with Traven's wonderfully poetic working-class prose. Its got all the action, range and psychological power of the film, plus a lot more, and it's one...more

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May 03, 2008 Raegan Butcher rated it 5 of 5 stars

Excellent adventure tale from the mysterious B. Traven. This book can really give you a taste of being down and out in a hot, dusty foreign country.

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Sep 16, 2011 Liam rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: cohen brothers fans

Recommended to Liam by: 2666 fans (w/r/t Archimboli)

Shelves: c20th-prewar, heartwarming, heartbreaking, favorites

A fantastic little story about American workers in 1920s Mexico, attempting to find their fortune whilst feverishly guarding their secret accumulation of wealth from sadistic, roaming bandits. Mexico in this novel is a place where working people are thrown about from poor paying job to poor paying job, with no place to live in except camps and hotels, and where the only cheer is found in retelling stories of glorious hidden riches. It's funny, gritty (for its time), humane and gripping.

Robbery,...more A fantastic little story about American workers in 1920s Mexico, attempting to find their fortune whilst feverishly guarding their secret accumulation of wealth from sadistic, roaming bandits. Mexico in this novel is a place where working people are thrown about from poor paying job to poor paying job, with no place to live in except camps and hotels, and where the only cheer is found in retelling stories of glorious hidden riches. It's funny, gritty (for its time), humane and gripping.

Robbery, a constantly manifest threat from bandits, is a central metaphor in this novel for the state of the land the three male protagonists, Dobbs, Curtin and Howard, find themselves fighting for survival in. At one point, at the end of their work, the three discuss how to leave the land they have been upturning for gold, and the elderly Howard asks the younger men to consider that nature may appreciate being restored to the state it was in before they came. This merely bemuses the younger men, and they can only think of self-interested reasons for covering their tracks, e.g. if they wish to return to it in the future.

Howard realises that in reality they are robbing the earth's resources just the same as the bandits threaten to rob them. The massive demand for casual labor and short term projects made possible by enormous capital are as unsustainable as the actions of the bandits, too. By the end of the story, robbers are robbed themselves, and the great efforts to obtain the booty is cut short just by being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Traven's point, I think, is that work is something which can unite people and give life a purpose, but when you work only for gold only the worst parts of human nature can come out, and nobody really wins, who plays this game, except for a handful of winners and a whole lot of pipedreaming losers (who are, in this setting, brutally dispatched of).

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No man has ever originated an idea. Any new idea is the crystallization of the ideas of thousands of other men. Then one man suddenly hits on the right word and the right expression for the new idea. And as soon as the word is there, hundreds of people realize that they has this idea long before.
When an enterprise takes definite shape in a man's mind, one can safely say that numbers of men all round him cherish the same or a similar plan. That is why movements catch on and spread like wildfire.(p.46)

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All that might not have been so bad. The worst was that by taking out a licence [for a gold mining project], however careful you might be, you were pretty sure to bring bandits about your ears - those bandits who reap without sowing, who lie in wait for weeks and months while their victims do the hard work, and then fall upon them as soon as they load up to go, and take their gold from them. And not only their gold, but their donkeys and even the shirts from their backs. It is not easy to find the way back to civilisation without donkeys or trousers or shirts or boots. Often the bandits, realizing this, are kind enough to take their lives too rather than leave them in such a perplexity. Who is to say where the poor wretches have got to? The bush is so vast and so impenetrable and its dangers so many. Sometimes there is a search for a missing man. And before the search is even on foot the bush has disposed of the body almost to the last bone. From this last bone it has to be made out who the man was to whom the bone belonged. And the culprits, of course, will be brought to justice. But for that, they must first be caught. And because of this, the bandit's trade is an easy one, much easier than getting gold by the sweat of his brow.(p.64)

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Apr 17, 2012 Gerald Kinro rated it 4 of 5 stars

It is Mexico in the early 1930's. Dobbs is an American “loser” looking for work. He is successful, but leaves for he feels cheated by his boss. However, he meets Curtin. One night, Dobbs hears a story about a gold hunt from an old man, Howard. He shares information with Curtin, and their quest for riches begins. They take Howard with them because of his knowledge of prospecting.

Then avarice takes over. Greed and how it can possess one is the theme of this very good read. At times, however, the...more

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Jun 22, 2007 Russell rated it 1 of 5 stars

BOOOooooooooooooooooo!

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May 17, 2012 Lawrence FitzGerald rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 1920-s, literary

I have a soft spot for Traven.

I cannot tell you if he is a socialist or a communist or something else. He does lean to the left, but he's subtle. He's not your typical strident propagandist SHOUTING at his audience. He takes his time; he tells an entertaining tale or two and then he lets you draw your own conclusions.

He writes in a good third person voice, something that is not easily done.

In first person, you're sitting in a quiet bar listening to someone tell you his story, what happened to h...more

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Aug 09, 2010 Whitney rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Everything a "genre" novel should be - funny, fascinating, educational, thought provoking, exciting, and terrifying. Moves from a critique of capitalism and human nature to an illustration of the value of team work to an Edgar Allan Poesque descent into madness and the grotesque (a pattern it shares with Traven's other great adventure novel, The Death Ship). The only real critique I would be willing to make of it is that the characters are little more than pawns and mouthpieces for Traven's plot...more

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Oct 01, 2011 Rachel rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction, classics

A morality tale about two indolent Americans eking out an existence in Mexico by begging and the occasional oil refinery job, who team up with an old prospector to mine for gold in the mountains. I've heard this book described as "deeply ironic," which I can't really go along with considering that everything you expect would happen -- greed, paranoia, and violence -- eventually does happen. I originally read this book when I was 15 and it was assigned in my high school Spanish class, though pres...more

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Aug 09, 2011 Mike Lindgren rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction

The mysterious B. Traven's masterpiece is best known as the source of the outstanding Bogart/Huston film, from 1948, but stands as a first-rate piece of noir gutbucket writing on its own. Ostensibly an adventure story, the novel combines elements of psychological realism and social protest with a grimly humorous fatalism that was a notch or two more sophisticated and profound than that of most hard-boiled writing of the time. An important if not necessarily essential book.

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Jan 21, 2010 Milo rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Superb work by the mysterious B Traven. Dialogue is dated to the time and slang of the early 20th century and reads like an old gangster/mob movie. Probably what dialogue in our contemporary literature will read like 80 years from now.
Good book centered on the effects of greed vs friendship. If you like this book read Traven's jungle series, in particular, Rebellion of the Hanged.

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Dec 27, 2008 Margaret rated it 3 of 5 stars

This book was very funny in an ironic way at times and many times I felt that wow, this was really a comment on mankind, greed and how money changes everything. But then again there were also many times when I felt, really, this is a classic? this is supposed to be good writing? The dialogue between the men was awful and the snide commentary about religion and government was either really tongue in cheek or just heavy handed. Was it worth it? Yeah, I'm glad I read it, but it didn't earn a perman...more

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Aug 20, 2012 Phillip Frey rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Anyone who likes gritty stories about greed.

B. Traven's writing is a bit dated now, but his story of greed will never be dated. From Wikipedia: "Most agree that Traven was Ret Marut, a German stage actor and anarchist, who supposedly left Europe for Mexico around 1924. There are also reasons to believe that Marut/Traven's real name was Otto Feige." So you can see that we still don't know for sure who B. Traven was.

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Dec 25, 2008 Jenny rated it 3 of 5 stars

Adventure yarn about three guys who go prospecting. Danger, gold fever, bandits, this book has it all. My only problem with it was the language (I know, it makes it more authentic) and the way the author has of having his characters tell extremely long stories that don't really move the plot forward. To be honest, I liked the 1949 Film better.

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Jul 24, 2008 Brian rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Jill, Kevin, Melisa

Recommended to Brian by: Lee Hendricks

Just reviewing "My Books" in preparation for really aggressively updating my comments, and couldn't imagine why I gave this only four stars to begin with. I've changed to five.

This book is great on its face just as an adventure tale, but it's totally chock full of subtly subversive anticapitalist, money-as-root-of-evil Marxian subtext, which makes it astounding that it became a major Hollywood production in the 1940s. Haven't seen the movie, though.

Pressed on me earlier this year by dear friend...more

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Nov 26, 2012 Martin Hernandez rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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"Es fácil de comprobar: cuando terminamos las 343 páginas de El tesoro de Sierra Madre no sabemos casi nada de las biografías de sus tres personajes principales, pero sabemos en cambio bastante de sus (a veces oscuros) corazones. Hemos leído mucho sobre lo que puede desencadenar el oro en un ser humano, con lo que sería fácil deducir que la novela trata sobre el oro, la minería y la codicia. Lo interesante es que bastante de lo que dice no es lo obvio, que todos conocemos desde la Biblia, sino q...more

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Sep 20, 2011 Rob rated it 5 of 5 stars

The movie has always been a favorite of mine since I was a kid because of it's unusually honest and brutal look at greed and selfishness. The movie is a pretty faithful adaptation of the book, but the book goes deeper into each man's circumstances and psychology while still maintaining the conflict, excitement and tension of the adventure story. The book is also really violent but in a blunt "it's just a part of nature" sort of way, which I liked. I give this book five stars because it totally b...more

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Oct 14, 2009 Karen rated it 3 of 5 stars

I read this for book club. I found it to be entertaining. It was sort of a cautionary tale--an exploration of evolving ethics or the lack there of as the characters dealt with the changing circumstances around their search for gold. Not exciting, but ok.

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About B. Traven

B. Traven (February, 1882? – March 26, 1969?) was the pen name of a German novelist, whose real name, nationality, date and place of birth and details of biography are all subject to dispute. A rare certainty is that B. Traven lived much of his life in Mexico, where the majority of his fiction is also set—including his best-known work, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1927), which was adapted as...more B. Traven (February, 1882? – March 26, 1969?) was the pen name of a German novelist, whose real name, nationality, date and place of birth and details of biography are all subject to dispute. A rare certainty is that B. Traven lived much of his life in Mexico, where the majority of his fiction is also set—including his best-known work, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1927), which was adapted as the Academy Award nominated film of the same name in 1948.
Virtually every detail of Traven's life has been disputed and hotly debated. There were many hypotheses on the true identity of B. Traven, some of them wildly fantastic. Most agree, that Traven was Ret Marut, a German stage actor and anarchist, who supposedly left Europe for Mexico around 1924. There are also reasons to believe that Marut/Traven's real name was Otto Feige and that he was born in Schwiebus in Brandenburg, modern day Świebodzin in Poland. B. Traven in Mexico is also connected with Berick Traven Torsvan and Hal Croves, both of whom appeared and acted in different periods of the writer's life. Both, however, denied being Traven and claimed that they were his literary agents only, representing him in contacts with his publishers.
B. Traven is the author of twelve novels, one book of reportage and several short stories, in which the sensational and adventure subjects combine with a critical attitude towards capitalism, betraying the socialist and even anarchist sympathies of the writer. B. Traven's best known works include the novels The Death Ship from 1926 and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre from 1927, in 1948 filmed by John Huston, and the so-called Jungle Novels, also known as the Caoba cyclus (from the Spanish word caoba, meaning mahogany), a group of six novels (including The Carreta, Government), published in the years 1930-1939, set among Mexican Indians just before and during the Mexican Revolution in the early 20th century. B. Traven's novels and short stories became very popular as early as the interwar period and retained this popularity after the war; they were also translated into many languages. Most of B. Traven's books were published in German first and their English editions appeared later; nevertheless the author always claimed that the English versions were the original ones and that the German versions were only their translations. This claim is not taken seriously.(less)

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