B. traven

A trip to a Central American jungle to watch how Indians behave near a bridge won't make you see either the jungle or the bridge or the Indians if you believe that the civilization you were born into is the only one that counts. Go and look around with the idea that everything you learned in school and college is wrong.

Morals are taught & preached not for the sake of heaven, but to assist those people on earth who have everything they need & more to retain their possessions & to help them to accumulate still more. Morals is the butter for those who have no bread.

Anyone who is willing to work and is serious about it will certainly find a job. Only you must not go to the man who tells you this, for he has no job to offer and doesn't know anyone who knows of a vacancy. This is exactly the reason why he gives you such generous advice, out of brotherly love, and to demonstrate how little he knows the world.

The creative person should have no other biography than his works.

The prison was very important - as everywhere on earth. Everywhere the building of a prison is the first step in the organization of a civilized state.

If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions! The only real defence civilized man has against anybody who bothers him is to lie. There would be no lies if there were no questions.

No use to preach to the working-man courtesy & politeness when at the same time the working-man is not given working conditions under which he can stay polite and soft-mannered.

My personal history would not be disappointing to readers, but it is my own affair which I want to keep to myself. I am in fact in no way more important than is the typesetter for my books, the man who works the mill; no more important than the man who binds my books and the woman who wraps them and the scrubwoman who cleans up the office.

The deplorable thing is that the people who were tortured yesterday, torture today.

The treasure which you think not worth taking trouble and pains to find, this alone is the real treasure you are longing for all your life. The glittering treasure you are hunting for day and night lies buried on the other side of that hill yonder.

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B. Traven: Biography and Life Work

B. Traven was a notable Writer.

B. Traven ( German: [ˈbeː ˈtʁaːvn̩] ; Bruno Traven in some accounts) was the pen name of a novelist, presumed to be German, known for his novels on injustice and exploitation around the world, and especially in Mexico. His name, nationality, date and place of birth have been subject to dispute. One certainty about Traven's life is that he lived under the name of Ret Marut in Germany until 1923 and arrived in 1924 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.

Philosophical Views and Reflections

Apart from his twelve novels, B. Traven authored many short stories, some of which remain unpublished. Besides the already mentioned Macario , the writer adapted the Mexican legend about The Creation of the Sun and the Moon ( Sonnen-Schöpfung , with a Czech translation published in 1934 and the German original in 1936). The first collection of Traven's short stories, entitled Der Busch , appeared in 1928; its second, enlarged edition was published in 1930. From the 1940s onwards many of his short stories also appeared in magazines and anthologies in different languages.

Writing in 2018, Anabel Aliaga-Buchenau, Professor of German at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte , stated that “he prevailing scholarly consensus is that B. Traven was born as Otto Feige in Schwiebus, Germany, to a father who worked in a brick factory.” : 46

B. Traven
B. traven

B. Traven: Biography and Life Work

B. Traven was a notable Writer.

B. Traven ( German: [ˈbeː ˈtʁaːvn̩] ; Bruno Traven in some accounts) was the pen name of a novelist, presumed to be German, known for his novels on injustice and exploitation around the world, and especially in Mexico. His name, nationality, date and place of birth have been subject to dispute. One certainty about Traven's life is that he lived under the name of Ret Marut in Germany until 1923 and arrived in 1924 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.

Philosophical Views and Reflections

Apart from his twelve novels, B. Traven authored many short stories, some of which remain unpublished. Besides the already mentioned Macario , the writer adapted the Mexican legend about The Creation of the Sun and the Moon ( Sonnen-Schöpfung , with a Czech translation published in 1934 and the German original in 1936). The first collection of Traven's short stories, entitled Der Busch , appeared in 1928; its second, enlarged edition was published in 1930. From the 1940s onwards many of his short stories also appeared in magazines and anthologies in different languages.

Writing in 2018, Anabel Aliaga-Buchenau, Professor of German at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte , stated that “he prevailing scholarly consensus is that B. Traven was born as Otto Feige in Schwiebus, Germany, to a father who worked in a brick factory.” : 46

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