Richard,
Thanks again for all the details and insight
related to Traven and THE TREASURE… you gave us in your last
messages.
I'm looking now for a recent translation, and as
soon I can find the book I'll let you know my opinion about
this novel.
E.Borgers
Richard Moore <
moorich@aol.com> a 飲it : Thank you for the
clarification as my response to your original statement was
based on the sweeping dismissal of Traven's work. I don't
disagree with your assessment of THE DEATH SHIP. It features
some scenes of great power but as a novel, it is a mess. It
was the first work published by Traven and it may share many
of the faults of a first novel.
The novel is important to understanding Traven as it is a cry
of rage by a stateless person trapped in a limbo of hell.
Traven, after an career as an actor and then revolutionary
editor/publisher had been an official of the brief Bavarian
republic after World War I. Following its overthrow, he was
captured and sentenced to death. He managed to escape but had
no papers and so could not travel and enter countries
legally. He was turned away from Canada and Britain. There is
a wonderful mug shot of him taken in London in 1923. It was
about this time he began to claim American citizenship.
Afterall, had he been deported to Germany, he would quite
possibly be executed.
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