by B. Traven · Círculo de Lectores. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788422626947
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The Death Ship is a novel by the writer B. Traven, published in 1926. The story follows an American sailor who loses his documentation and is forced to work on a dilapidated steamship, where living conditions are inhuman. The novel is a critique of capitalism and the exploitation of workers.
B. Traven was the pen name of a novelist, presumed to be German, known for his novels on injustice and exploitation around the world, and especially in Mexico. His name, nationality, date and place of birth have been subject to dispute. One certainty about Traven's life is that he lived under the name of Ret Marut in Germany until 1923 and arrived in 1924 in Mexico, where the majority of his fiction is also set—including The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1927), the film adaptation of which won three Academy Awards in 1949.
