[HN Gopher] B. Traven ___________________________________________________________________ B. Traven Author : benbreen Score : 58 points Date : 2021-04-17 06:36 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (en.wikipedia.org) (TXT) w3m dump (en.wikipedia.org) | ggm wrote: | Everybody raves for sierra madre. I think death ship is a better | novel in some ways. More constrained. Jack London expose style. | johannesgoslar wrote: | They are both great books. And both have relevant points for | current times. Death Ship has quite interesting analogies to | the upcoming (vaccination) passports and resulting society | structures and failures. And Sierra Madre has important lessons | about companionship. For someone being critically inclined to | the "press" reading some of his Ziegelbrenner will be quite | interesting. | starkd wrote: | Wiki mentions his left-wing anarchic persuasion. I admit I've | only read "Treasure of the Sierra Madre", but I honestly can't | see any political taint to his work. Sure, it highlights the | evils of raw capitalism, but, outside of the anarcho-capitalists, | I don't think you'll find much argument t here. It's a very fine | novel, and has a lot to say about the human condition. | sneak wrote: | I wonder if it is possible today to publish under a pseudonym | that will stand the test of history, given what we know about | mass surveillance databases. | willvarfar wrote: | It will be interesting in the future to find out if the | intelligence agencies know who created Bitcoin. Can anyone | think of other modern mysteries that government surveillance | might know the answer to but are keeping quiet? | simonlc wrote: | What if the agencies are the ones that created bitcoin? | CameronNemo wrote: | Or some coal miners in China :/ | toyg wrote: | UFOs, "of course". | | More seriously, I think it's more likely that we'll | eventually find a bunch of high-profile cases were built with | "parallel construction". | toyg wrote: | No need to even go there. Elena Ferrante got made a few years | ago simply by tracking royalties payments. Most lit pseudonyms | are broken by simple gossip. | defen wrote: | I'm experiencing a weird Baader Meinhof Phenomenon variant right | now...I just started reading _2666_ , which concerns itself with | (among other things) a mysterious German novelist in Mexico. Very | odd to see this story here right now. | emmelaich wrote: | Me too -- I just watched the Treasure of Sierra Madre. | | Not only did John Huston direct, his father acted in it. One of | the best characters. | jeffbee wrote: | This wikipedia article seems very under-sourced, and there are | several unsupported instances of "many say" and "some argue", | just in the introductory paragraphs. Later there are paragraphs | with a number of factual claims and only one source that supports | only one or none of them. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-04-18 23:01 UTC)