by B. Traven · Diogenes Verlag AG · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783257211085
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«Die Rebellion der Gehenkten» is the social novel by B. Traven, published by Diogenes Verlag AG in paperback (336 pages, in German).
The action takes place in southern Mexico and portrays the brutal exploitation of indigenous people in the timber camps controlled by large landowners, in the years preceding the 1910 Revolution against Porfirio Díaz. Faced with misery and injustice, the workers end up organizing a rebellion in defense of their dignity.
Fifth installment of the mahogany cycle (Caoba-Zyklus), also known as Jungle Novels; the work was originally published in 1936.
Classic of social narrative, for readers interested in the critique of capitalism and pre-revolutionary Mexico.
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.
