
The Carreta
B. Traven(Author)
Ivan R Dee, Inc (Publisher)
Published on 1. February 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
271 pages
978-1-56663-045-0 (ISBN)
Description
The Carreta is the second of B. Traven's six Jungle Novels which together form an epic of the birth of the Mexican Revolution. The young Indian who is the hero of The Carreta is an ox-cart driver. More sophisticated than most of his companions who work in debt-slavery in the great mahogany plantations, Andres can read and hopes to go back to his wife. But he labors with no awareness of how really impossible this is. Pressing down on him is the plight of his father, who was also sold to the monteria. Andres believes he can never return to his wife until he repays his father's debt. Traven's purpose in the Jungle Novels is to describe the conditions of a people who are ripe for revolt, and to trace the beginnings of consciousness which result in the determination to revolt. In The Carreta he brings his remarkable narrative talents to bear on the coming of age of Andres and the oppressive world in which he finds he must make his way. "Traven is a very great writer .... His work must be read."-New York Times Book Review.
Reviews / Votes
B. Traven is coming to be recognized as one of the narrative masters of the twentieth century. * The New York Times * The Jungle Novels constitute one of the richest portraits of revolution in all literature. * University Review * Great storytellers often arise like Judaic just men to exemplify and rehearse the truth for their generation. B. Traven was such a man. * Book World * Traven is a riveting storyteller. * The Philadelphia Inquirer * Readers who ignore the genius of B. Traven do so at their peril. * The New York Times *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Chicago
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 202 mm
Width: 138 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
299 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56663-045-0 (9781566630450)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
The mysterious B. Traven (1890-1969) was born in Chicago, spent his youth in Germany as an itinerant actor and revolutionary journalist, became a seaman on tramp steamers, settled in Mexico in the early 1920s, and began recording his experience in novels and stories. In the United States his best-known novel is The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.