The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre

A CULT MASTERPIECE—THE ADVENTURE NOVEL THAT INSPIRED JOHN HUSTON"S CLASSIC FILM, BY THE ELUSIVE tác giả WHO WAS A mã sản phẩm FOR THE nhân vật OF ROBERTO BOLAÑO"S 2666 Little is known for certain about B.

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Traven. Evidence suggests that he was born Otto Feige in Schlewsig-Holstein & that he escaped a death sentence for his involvement with the anarchist underground in Bavaria. Traven spent most of his adult life in Mexico, where, under various names, he wrote several bestsellers and was an outspoken defender of the rights of Mexico"s indigenous people. First published in 1935, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is Traven"s most famous & enduring work, the dark, savagely ironic, and riveting story of three down-and-out Americans hunting for gold in Sonora.

B. Traven was the pen name of a German novelist, whose real name, nationality, date và place of birth và 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 & 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 & anarchist, who supposedly left Europe for Mexico around 1924.

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There are also reasons lớn believe that Marut/Traven"s real name was Otto Feige và that he was born in Schwiebus in Brandenburg, modern day Świebodzin in Poland. B. Traven in Mexico is also connected with Berick Traven Torsvan và Hal Croves, both of whom appeared & acted in different periods of the writer"s life. Both, however, denied being Traven & 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 & The Treasure of the Sierra Madre from 1927, in 1948 filmed by John Huston, và 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, phối among Mexican Indians just before & 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 và 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 tác giả always claimed that the English versions were the original ones & that the German versions were only their translations. This claim is not taken seriously.