
General from the Jungle
B. Traven(Author)
Ivan R Dee, Inc (Publisher)
Published on 1. February 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
285 pages
978-1-56663-076-4 (ISBN)
Description
With General from the Jungle, the sixth and last of B. Traven's legendary Jungle Novels, Ivan R Dee completes the republication of this multivolume fictional epic of the birth of the Mexican Revolution. In General, a masterpiece on guerrilla warfare, Traven tells the story of Juan Mendez, perhaps the youngest and greatest of the Indian rebel chieftains, who leads an ill-equipped and hungry band against the government forces. With brilliance and cunning, Mendez brutally attacks the federally protected fincas. The book is filled with marvelously drawn characters, yet the true hero is the army itself-illiterate, uneducated, and poor, but resourceful and dangerous. Beyond his great storytelling, Traven's work has a special resonance today because of recent uprisings in the Chiapas highlands of southern Mexico, the very locale of his writings.
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: 136 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
299 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56663-076-4 (9781566630764)
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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.