B. Traven

An archive of texts and documents by and about B. Traven, alias Ret Marut, on libcom.org.

The treasure of the Sierra Madre - B. Traven

B. Traven's best known novel about three men prospecting for gold in the mountains of Mexico, and the things it drives them to do.

Marut, Ret: The Early B. Traven - James Goldwasser

A 1990s article surveying the then recently-acquired Ret Marut archive, now residing with the University of California. The documents confirm…

The Death Ship - book cover

Review of B. Traven's The Death Ship

A communist in Australia reviews B. Traven's The Death Ship, and relates it to the 2002 attacks on the working conditions of maritime workers in…

The faces of Traven(?); Feige, Marut, Torsvan, Croves/Traven...

Traven, B. – An Anti-Biography

A short biography of the writer and anarchist, B Traven, also known as Feige, Ret Marut, Torsvan, Croves...

Traven, B., 1890-1969

A short biography of B. Traven, German underground author, anarchist and writer of the Treasure of Sierra Madre. [This article contains several factual inaccuracies and is typical of the many myths and half truths that have circulated concerning the mysterious B. Traven. For example, the date and location of birth given here are entirely speculative. For the known facts concerning Traven and a far more accurate…

The Actor and the King - Ret Marut/B. Traven

A short story by the anarchist Ret Marut, who in later years became the well-known radical novelist B. Traven.

Cover of Assembly Line pamphlet

Assembly Line - B. Traven

This is an early Traven story, taken, in an uncredited translation, (probably by Traven himself - I have Anglicised the spelling) from The Night…

Photos of Ret Marut from London police files - 1923

In the Freest State in the World - Ret Marut (B. Traven)

A satirical text about German democracy and the Munich Soviet Republic of 1919, in which Ret Marut …