{"product_id":"b-traven-portrait-of-a-famous-unknown-9798887440552","title":"B. Traven: Portrait of a Famous Unknown","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHis life belonged to him, only. His books belonged to the public.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eB. Traven: Portrait of a Famous Unknown\u003c\/i\u003e is a graphic biography that tells the larger-than-life story of the German revolutionary, actor, and writer known as B. Traven (1882-1969). Despite his commercial success as a best-selling writer, Traven managed to keep his identity a secret during his lifetime. It is now generally accepted that Traven was in fact \"Ret Marut\" (another psudonym), a German stage actor and editor of an anarchist newspaper in Germany called \u003ci\u003eDer Ziegelbrenner\u003c\/i\u003e (The Brickburner). As Marut he was a major participant in the short-lived Bavarian Council Republic of 1919-20. Barely escaping execution, he fled Germany and lived incognito for the remainder of his life. His entire literary work, a great commercial success in its day, combines lively and often humorous storytelling with radical critique of capitalism and nationalism. His best-known work, \u003ci\u003eThe Treasure of the Sierra Madre\u003c\/i\u003e, from 1927, was adapted for film in 1948 by John Huston.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eGolo's account of Traven's life, rendered with stunning artwork, begins and ends with his ashes being dropped from a plane over the Lacandon jungle in Chiapas, Mexico, just a quarter century before the explosive uprising of the Zapatistas seemed to echo his deepest wishes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50901484437778,"sku":"9798887440552","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7abd6f09-5871-4706-83f2-5260f4a54bc7.jpg?v=1738427173","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/b-traven-portrait-of-a-famous-unknown-9798887440552","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}