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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
'Gold is a very devilish sort of a thing, believe me, boys'Deep in the wild heart of Mexico's Sierra Madre mountains lies treasure beyond reckoning, just waiting to be found by those who know where to look. Or so believe three Americans - Dobbs, Curtin and Howard - down on their luck and desperate for a way out. Teaming up on a perilous quest to hunt for gold, they soon find their fragile alliance tested, both by a band of local outlaws, and by their own greed. First published in 1927 and made into a classic film by John Huston, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is a savagely ironic, anarchic cult novel about the price of ambition and the limits of endurance.
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The Bridge in the Jungle
It seemed that even the jungle fell silent for a moment as if it wanted to help save a little childIn the depths of the Mexican jungle, American traveller Gerard Gales is hunting for alligators, when he comes across a small village along the banks of the Huayalexco. Invited into the local community, Gales joins a huge party, held just across the river. But tragedy strikes when a young boy suddenly disappears into the pitch-dark night. As the villagers grapple with their loss, they come together in the face of life's harshest realities, and something unspoken is born. A work of vivid description and radical empathy, Traven's 1929 novel is a moving portrait of consolation and belonging in a remote indigenous community.
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The Death Ship
A cult masterpiece and darkly comic tale of survival on the high seas by an enigmatic bestselling author believed to have inspired Roberto Bolaño’s 2666A Penguin ClassicStateless and stranded after he loses his passport, sailor Gerald Gales flees arrest and persecution across Europe, until he finally finds work on the Yorikke, a decrepit “death ship” bound for destruction. Condemned to stoke the furnaces, Gales must navigate a labyrinth of surreal rules and the brutal realities of life at sea if he is to make it out alive. First published in 1926 and thought to bear the traces of the mysterious author B. Traven’s own experience of migrating to Mexico, The Death Ship is a darkly absurd, raging tale about what it takes to survive when life is cheap.Penguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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The Carreta
From the enigmatic author of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre comes The Carreta, the second volume in B. Traven's epic multivolume Jungle Novels series.Andrés is a young Indigenous oxcart driver in the mahogany camps of southern Mexico, bound to a system of debt slavery he scarcely understands. Unlike many of the men around him, he can read, and he holds fast to a single hope: that one day he will return to his wife. Yet the terms of his captivity reach beyond his own labor. Around him, work continues without end, enforced by habit, coercion, and the illusion that freedom can be earned. Andrés believes he can clear the debt and go home. The system ensures that he cannot.The Carreta presents a grim vision of lives controlled by forces beyond their power, where endurance replaces hope, duty becomes a burden, and aspirations gradually give way to reality.
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Government
Government is the first installment of B. Traven's legendary Jungle Novels, a series of six books detailing the oppression and subsequent uprising of the Mexican Revolution.Don Gabriel arrives in a remote village as the embodiment of the government, a minor bureaucrat assigned to oversee an isolated outpost at the edge of the Mexican Revolution. His task is brutal and routine. He organizes the capture and transport of Indigenous villagers to forced labor on mahogany plantations owned by foreign investors. Around him, officials posture and command, while power reveals itself as something hollow, sustained by fear and habit. As tensions rise, obedience gives way to defiance, and the fragile order imposed by the state begins to crack.Moving with quiet intensity toward a violent and inevitable reckoning, Government lays bare the collision between authority and humanity, illusion and truth, in a stark and enduring portrait of power at its most corrosive.
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Canasta de Cuentos Mexicanos / Basket of Mexican Short Stories
«Las obras de Traven son duras, llenas de descripciones de peligro, crueldad y sufrimiento tanto físico como emocional, pero su prosa sobria y directa tiene unainmediatez hipnótica y las narraciones y los temas son claros y poderosos.» -Enciclopedia Británica B. Traven, nacido en Alemania, vivió más de la mitad de su vida en México y sintió gran admiración por su gente. Canasta de cuentos mexicanos es un testimonio de ello a través de diez cuentos que retratan las costumbres, ideas y conflictos del país durante la primera mitad del siglo XX. Estos relatos presentan dos perspectivas de existir en el mundo que se contraponen: la visión pragmática y a veces cínica del foráneo, que representa los intereses económicos o políticos, y la sabiduría popular de los mexicanos que, con humor, astucia y dignidad enfrentan el día a día. Las historias de Traven van del absurdo a la tragedia, retratando las tensiones que hay en el poder, lo marginal, la justicia y la resistencia.ENGLISH DESCRIPTION “Traven’s works are harsh, full of descriptions of danger, cruelty, and physical and emotional suffering, but his sober and direct prose has a hypnotic immediacy, and the narratives and themes are clear and powerful.” —Encyclopedia BritannicaB. Traven, born in Germany, lived more than half of his life in Mexico and felt great admiration for its people. Basket of Mexican Short Stories is a testament to this through ten stories that portray the customs, ideas, and conflicts of the country during the first half of the 20th century.These stories present two contrasting perspectives on existence in the world: the pragmatic and sometimes cynical view of the outsider, who represents economic or political interests, and the popular wisdom of Mexicans who face everyday life with humor, cunning, and dignity. Traven’s stories range from the absurd to the tragic, portraying the tensions that exist in power, marginalization, justice, and resistance.
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Macario (Spanish Edition)
Para celebrar la atemporal vigencia de la obra, este libro incluye “Archivo Traven: hacer Macario”, un recorrido visual para celebrar el texto de Traven y su adaptación cinematográfica, una de las películas másemblemáticas del cine mexicano. Macario es una persona humilde, leñador, trabajador, padre responsable con una sola, pero improbable, ilusión: comer él solo un pavo entero. Cuando se le presenta la oportunidad como recompensa por su esfuerzo, se encuentra a tres extrañas figuras que intentan convencerlo de compartir su anhelada comida a cambio de promesas y dones extraordinarios.Ambientada en el México rural de la época colonial, esta breve novela de B. Traven es una poderosa reflexión sobre el deseo, la dignidad, la injusticia y la muerte; una parábola sobre la lucha de clases y la desigualdad; una historia que, escrita en clave de fábula con un lenguaje directo y accesible, cuestiona las estructuras de poder y las jerarquías sociales.ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONTo celebrate the timeless relevance of the work, this book includes “Archivo Traven: hacer Macario,” a visual journey to celebrate Traven’s text and its film adaptation, one of the most emblematic films in Mexican cinema.Macario is a humble person, a woodcutter, a hard worker, a responsible father with a single, but unlikely, dream: to eat a whole turkey all by himself. When the opportunity arises as a reward for his efforts, he encounters three strange figures who try to convince him to share his long-awaited meal in exchange for promises and extraordinary gifts.Set in rural Mexico during the colonial era, this short novel by B. Traven is a powerful reflection on desire, dignity, injustice, and death; a parable about class struggle and inequality; a story that, written in the style of a fable with direct and accessible language, questions power structures and social hierarchies.
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Altina Hücum
Aclikla umut, dostlukla cikar arasinda ince bir cizgi... Insanlar ellerinde olmayan kosullar sonucunda sürüklendikleri netameli durumlarda dürüst ve ahlaki secimler yapabilir miYayimlandigi 1927 yilindan bugüne dünya edebiyatinin en carpici anti-serüvenlerinden biri kabul edilen Altina Hücumda B. Traven, Meksikada bes parasiz üc Amerikalinin, diger binlerce insan gibi köseyi dönmek icin dünyanin en degerli madeninin pesinde kosarken baslarindan gecenleri anlatir. Ancak Traven macerayi romanin esas unsuru kilmaz, bunu ayni zamanda insanlik durumunun sinirlarini sorgulamak icin de ustaca kullanir ve modern kapitalist dünyada siddeti katlanarak artan sömürü düzeninin köklerini elleriyle kazir. Hayatta kalma mücadelesinin ortasinda, altin ugruna sallanan her kürek, vicdani, yoldasligi ve beklentileri topraga gömer.John Huston tarafindan filme cekilmis ve üc Oscar Ödülüyle taclandirilmis Altina Hücum, insan ruhunun karanliklarina yerlesmis hirsin ve zaaflarin keskin bir alegorisi.
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Das Totenschiff
Der amerikanische Seemann Gales verpasst in den Kneipen Antwerpens sein Schiff, auf dem sich sein einziges Identitätsdokument befindet, wird als Staatenloser über europäische Landesgrenzen abgeschoben und heuert schließlich in Barcelona auf dem Schiff ¿Yorikke¿ mit illegaler Ladung und Besatzung und höllischen Arbeitsbedingungen an. Und es kommt noch schlimmer.
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Macario
Un patto con la morte in cambio di metà tacchino arrosto. Basta questo apparentemente piccolo privilegio al poverissimo taglialegna Macario per ritrovarsi afferrato in un insolubile intreccio in cui il destino, come nelle più cruente fiabe, annoda la magia, la speranza, la gioia e il sogno all'orrore e alla disperazione, per rianimare la forza mitopoietica del racconto e dar vita ad una potente rivisitazione proletaria della leggenda di Faust. Una favola capace di risvegliare gli arcani e le forse primigenie del mito e al contempo sviscerare con occhio dissacrante l'eterna lotta di potere tra ricchezza e povertà. Das Urheberrecht an bibliographischen und produktbeschreibenden Daten und an den bereitgestellten Bildern liegt bei Informazioni Editoriali, I.E. S.r.l., oder beim Herausgeber oder demjenigen, der die Genehmigung erteilt hat. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.
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Araba
Araba, kücük ve ilkel birer ciftlik olan fincalarda efendilerinin kurdugu borc ekonomisi icerisinde, özgürlük nedir bilmeksizin yasamaya calisan plantasyon iscisi yerlilerle, bu fincalardan pacasini kurtarmis olsalar da baska türden bir patron boyundurugu altina girmis, tüccarlarin yük kervanlarini ceken arabacilarin, yani carreteolarin müsterek dünyasina dair yalin ve dokunakli bir kesit sunarken Devrim öncesi Meksikasinin röntgenini ceker.Sefaletin, adaletsizligin ve gericiligin ortasinda kalbini temiz, dimagini acik tutmaya calisarak yasama gayreti gösteren genc arabaci Andresin gözünden, isci sinifinin bilincindeki tanidik ketleri okuruz. Katolik kilisesinin d ayattigi bagnaz pratikler ve yerel yöneticilerin okuryazarlik düzeyini asgaride tutma cabasinin gercegin üzerini örten kalin perdesi, Andresin keskin zekasi, dayanismaci ruhu ve duyarliligi sayesinde aralanir.Meksika kitasini devrime götüren engebeli yollarin tozundan nasibini almis bu naif hikaye, B. Travenin sinif savasimina dair ironik oldugu kadar son derece isabetli tespitleriyle hayat buluyor.Yeryüzünün dört bir yanindaki proleterler, birbirlerinin kafalarini kirmaktan ayri bir zevk alirlar. Dolayisiyla da patronlarinin kafasi saglam kalir. Sefil ve umutsuz ekonomik durumlarinin baskisi altinda biriken öfke, proleterlerin birbirini kardesce paralamasiyla yatisir cünkü. Ekonomiyi bir güzel altüst etme firsati tam ellerine gecmisken, onlarin yeterli itici gücten ve saglikli bir öfkeden yoksun olmalarinin nedeni budur.
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Kanli Yürüyüs
Tropik Meksika ormanlarinin unutulmaz sembolü görkemli caoba ya da maun agaclari, B. Travenin satirlarinda acimasiz bir sömürünün ve dolayisiyla servetin nesnesi haline geliyor.Maun agaclarinin adeta kökü kurutulurcasina kesilip toplandigi monterialara, derinliklerdeki orman kamplarina yapilan amansiz yolculugu konu eden Kanli Yürüyüs, ayni zamanda kapitalist döngünün de yol haritasini cikariyor Isciler, onlari kirbaclayan gözcüler, gözcüleri gözdagiyla calistiran simsarlar, simsarlari tepelerine diken sirket sahipleri, hepsinin üstüne de Baskan Don Porfirio derken insanligin ayagina dolanmis zincir, New York ya da Londra borsalarina kadar uzaniyor. Birbiri ardina de vrilen maun agaclari baskentlerdeki dairelerin lüks mobilyalarina dönüsürken, zincirin ilk halkasindakiler bunun bedelini kaniyla, caniyla, ruhuyla ödüyor.Traven bu orman kamplarina yapilan yolculukta icinden gecilmesi gereken tüketici cangili, bir sekilde icinde yasadigimiz sistemin bir aynasi olarak kurgulamayi basarirken Joseph Conradin Karanligin Yüregi eserindeki kadar sertlesiyor. Ama yine de ormanin tam da o en karanlik kuytularinda umut isiginin izlerini aramaktan vazgecmeyi aklindan bile gecirmiyor.
€ 15,99