The white rose b traven
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By Randy Jackson
I was first introduced to the works of the Mexican writer B. Traven in a Spanish class. We were assigned a short story by Traven, titled “Dos Burros.” I found the story compelling. There was something about both the story itself and the style of narration that appealed to me. So, of course, I googled B. Traven, and immediately plummeted down a curiosity rabbit hole about this strange and enigmatic writer.
In 1952, the Mexican government granted citizenship to Berick Traven Torsvan, a person who, by then, was a well-established writer, living in Mexico and writing under the pen name of B. Traven. How Mexican citizenship was granted to a person as fictitious as a character in one of Traven’s own novels is a mystery in itself.
To confuse his identity further, in Mexico Traven never appeared as Traven, but represented himself as Hal Croves, a supposed friend and agent of B. Traven. When the Hollywood producer John Huston paid for the movie rights to The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, he handed the cheque to a person claiming to be Hal Croves, a person with Pow
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Biographical Notes for B. Traven
B. Traven was born in Chicago, Illinoison March 5th, 1890 to Swedish parents. He spent his youth in Germany,where he began writing leftist / anarchistliterature under the assumed name of Ret Marut,and eventually published an underground anarchist magazine, Der Ziegelbrenner,(The Brick Burner). Traven was forced to flee Germany under the threat of a death sentence issued by the post-World War freikorps of Bavaria.
He disappeared for a time only to reappear in a British prison (crime unknown). After vanishing from London, a man calling himself B. Traven, began sending manuscripts in German to Das Buchengild, a German publisher.
Sometimes shown as Bernard Traven in his film credits, he is conversely shown as 'Bruno' Traven in the copyright listing of the Mexican edition of his books. The only thing that is certain is that this name was yet another alias.
Traven settled in Mexicosometime in the twenties, shortly after the reign of dictator Po Novelist B. Traven (German:[ˈbeːˈtʁaːvn̩]; Bruno Traven in some accounts) was the pen name of a novelist, presumed to be German, whose real name, nationality, date and place of birth and details of biography are all subject to dispute. It has been claimed that it would be the pseudonym of one Frans Blom, an explorer of Mayan culture. One certainty about Traven's life is that he lived for years in Mexico, where the majority of his fiction is also set—including The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1927), the film adaptation of which won three Academy Awards in 1949. 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. The other name most commonly identified with Traven is Ret Marut, a German stage actor and anarchist, who had edited an anarchist newspaper in Germany called Der Ziegelbrenner (The Brick Burner).[2][3] Traven's widow Rosa Elena Luján accepted that her husband and Marut were one and the same i
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