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21 mars 2019
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Karl S. Guthke, « 6. In “A Far-Off Land”: B. Traven’s Mexican Stories », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.n27fxo
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A German Revolutionary in the Tropical Jungle In the spring of 1926 the fledgling Socialist publishing house Büchergilde Gutenberg (Berlin) dramatically enlivened the literary scene by bringing out, within a few weeks of each other, two novels: Das Totenschiff (The Death Ship) and Der Wobbly – one about the life of an American sailor aboard a dilapidated freighter destined to be scuttled in an insurance fraud scheme, the other about the adventures of an American hobo suspected of being a Wobb...