Talk:B. Traven

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Contents 1 Parentage 2 Ret Maruts newspaper 3 Politics 4 B. Traven. A Mystery Solved 5 "America's greatest writer" 6 Film version 7 Identity consensus?

[edit] Parentage

Please only include sourced information about his parentage. Speculation is fine but it has to be somebody else's speculation. James James 10:40, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

I notice that more has been added. I have tagged the two unsourced items. If no source is provided, I will remove them. Dpbsmith (talk) 13:45, 17 January 2006 (UTC) Thanks, 64.40.54.80. Dpbsmith (talk) 15:19, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ret Maruts newspaper

According to the external links "Der Ziegelbrenner", Marut's anti-militarist newspaper was published between 1917 & 1921 or possibly 1922, which would not be "last years of the Weimar Republic." but late Wilhelmine-very early Weimar period. -—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.56.99.235 (talk • contribs).

[edit] Politics

The article as it stands gives almost no sense of B. Traven's radical social/political views. I'm probably not going to work on this one, but someone really should. - Jmabel | Talk 04:48, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] B. Traven. A Mystery Solved

Someone should watch this fascinating documentary (external links section). It pretty much proves who he was and where he was from. -- 71.191.36.194 20:55, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Why do you think it does? It just offers one of many theories, namely the Otto Feige theory (and not even the freshest theory, given that it was aired in 1979), but there is no proof. — ^PDD 22:01, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "America's greatest writer"

Ed Abbey cites B. Traven as "America's greatest writer" in a 29 August 1977 letter (David Petersen, ed. "Postcards from Ed" (Minneapolis: Milkweed, 2006), p. 76). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.89.192.125 (talk) 20:20, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Film version

Apart from Sierra Madre, shouldn't there be mention of other film versions of his works ? -- Beardo (talk) 04:33, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Identity consensus?

As to Travern's true identity, is there a person scholars generally agree on? --Ragemanchoo (talk) 11:22, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

I find it hard to believe that anyone who has read the article would ask that question.--John Price (talk) 18:52, 21 May 2008 (UTC)