by B. Traven · PLANETA: BIBLIOTECA MUNDIAL DE GRANDES AVENTURAS · tapa dura · ISBN 9788432090998
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«El tesoro de Sierra Madre» is the adventure novel by B. Traven, published by Planeta in hardback (298 pages, in Spanish).
Three unemployed, penniless Americans venture into the Sierra Madre in search of gold. The discovery awakens greed among them, and the story becomes a denunciation of ambition and its effects, with growing dramatic tension. The novel was adapted into film by John Huston.
Spanish-language edition from 1987 in Planeta's Biblioteca Mundial de Grandes Aventuras collection, with translation by Esperanza López Mateos. Original work from 1935, «Der Schatz der Sierra Madre».
For readers of adventure novels and literary classics, and for those who want to discover the work that inspired John Huston's film.
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.
