The Hero without a Name: B. Traven's “The Death Ship”

Abstract

THE DEATH SHIP is the most famous of all B. Traven's books. When it first came out in Germany in 1935, it sold over 200,000 copies before it was banned. It is subtitled ‘The Story of an American Sailor’—although it could as well be called ‘The Story of a Hero without a name’. Perhaps the term ‘Hero’ needs definition in this context, since ‘the song of the real…hero of the sea has not yet been sung’, writes the author in the first chapter.

Citation

Braybrooke, N. (1970), "The Hero without a Name: B. Traven's “The Death Ship”", Library Review, Vol. 22 No. 7, pp. 371-373. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb012543