B. Traven's/The Jungle Novels/
by Louis Proyect
Book Review
*October 20, 2003*
B. Traven,/Government,/Elephant Paperbacks, 1971; ISBN: 156663038.
/Trozas,/Elephant Paperbacks, 1977; ISBN: 1566632196.
/General from the Jungle,/Elephant Paperbacks, 1995; ISBN: 1566630762.
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Most people get their first exposure to B. Traven indirectly through the
film "Treasure of the Sierra Madre," which was based on one of his early
novels. If the time were ever ripe for a B. Traven revival, it is now.
During the 1920s and 30s, this anarcho-syndicalist writer from Germany
attacked the evils of the capitalist system in Mexico, his adopted
homeland. Of particular interest are The Jungle Novels, which are set in
Chiapas, Mexico. Focused on the plight of Indian debt peons, they are
filled with the same kind of passionate commitment to the oppressed
found in a Subcommandante Zero speech while embodying the same sorts of
contradictions that face the Zapatista Army of National Liberation
(EZLN) today. This review will examine "Government," the first in the
series, "Trozas," the fourth installment, and the last, "The General
from the Jungle."
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