[HN Gopher] B. Traven
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       B. Traven
        
       Author : benbreen
       Score  : 58 points
       Date   : 2021-04-17 06:36 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | ggm wrote:
       | Everybody raves for sierra madre. I think death ship is a better
       | novel in some ways. More constrained. Jack London expose style.
        
         | johannesgoslar wrote:
         | They are both great books. And both have relevant points for
         | current times. Death Ship has quite interesting analogies to
         | the upcoming (vaccination) passports and resulting society
         | structures and failures. And Sierra Madre has important lessons
         | about companionship. For someone being critically inclined to
         | the "press" reading some of his Ziegelbrenner will be quite
         | interesting.
        
       | starkd wrote:
       | Wiki mentions his left-wing anarchic persuasion. I admit I've
       | only read "Treasure of the Sierra Madre", but I honestly can't
       | see any political taint to his work. Sure, it highlights the
       | evils of raw capitalism, but, outside of the anarcho-capitalists,
       | I don't think you'll find much argument t here. It's a very fine
       | novel, and has a lot to say about the human condition.
        
       | sneak wrote:
       | I wonder if it is possible today to publish under a pseudonym
       | that will stand the test of history, given what we know about
       | mass surveillance databases.
        
         | willvarfar wrote:
         | It will be interesting in the future to find out if the
         | intelligence agencies know who created Bitcoin. Can anyone
         | think of other modern mysteries that government surveillance
         | might know the answer to but are keeping quiet?
        
           | simonlc wrote:
           | What if the agencies are the ones that created bitcoin?
        
             | CameronNemo wrote:
             | Or some coal miners in China :/
        
           | toyg wrote:
           | UFOs, "of course".
           | 
           | More seriously, I think it's more likely that we'll
           | eventually find a bunch of high-profile cases were built with
           | "parallel construction".
        
         | toyg wrote:
         | No need to even go there. Elena Ferrante got made a few years
         | ago simply by tracking royalties payments. Most lit pseudonyms
         | are broken by simple gossip.
        
       | defen wrote:
       | I'm experiencing a weird Baader Meinhof Phenomenon variant right
       | now...I just started reading _2666_ , which concerns itself with
       | (among other things) a mysterious German novelist in Mexico. Very
       | odd to see this story here right now.
        
         | emmelaich wrote:
         | Me too -- I just watched the Treasure of Sierra Madre.
         | 
         | Not only did John Huston direct, his father acted in it. One of
         | the best characters.
        
       | jeffbee wrote:
       | This wikipedia article seems very under-sourced, and there are
       | several unsupported instances of "many say" and "some argue",
       | just in the introductory paragraphs. Later there are paragraphs
       | with a number of factual claims and only one source that supports
       | only one or none of them.
        
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