Latest post to the unofficial Socialist Standard MySpace page is a canny wee short story by Ret Marut aka B. Traven, entitled 'The Actor and the King', which was liberated shamelessly from the anarchist website, libcom. Libcom also carries an informative biographical essay on one of literature's most mysterious characters.
I must give his first novel, Death Ship, another go sometime. I never did finish it first time round, despite the fact that I really loved 'The Treasure of Sierra Madre'.
3 comments:
Darn , Darren
You beat me to it again ...for weeks now i have been planning to do a B Traven blog ...especially about The Death Ship , ID -less State-less , Country-less ,like many the political refugees of today.
Alan,
you still can for the following reasons:
1) As I mentioned in the post, I've yet to finish Death Ship.
2) The post is little more than a link to a nice short story by Marut/Traven.
See, aren't I so much more generous than you in blogging terms?
It's the 'You will have had your tea?' all over again. ;-)
Your kindness knows no bounds Darren bhoy.It should melt the heart even of an Alan.He brings biscuits for his tea, to be fair.I am now going to slope off and read the short story.I just love this writer.
M.C.
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