The White Rose (Traven novel)

The white rose is a 1929 published novel by B. Traven, in which it comes to the fate of the inhabited by Indians Hacienda "The White Rose" in Mexico in the 1920s.

Content

The plot is in three parts:

First Traven describes the idyllic, harmonious and nature-loving life of the Indians at the Hacienda and operated consciously all the clichés of the romantic Indian life. He also rich in detail describes the contradictory life of Mr. Collins, head of an oil company, which is interested in the land of the white rose. But then the owner of the Hacienda is murdered Chaney and C. Collins, president of Condor Oil Company, the farm misappropriated at. Traven escapes in this book capitalism its mystical complexity, in which he reduced the system to the interplay between the protagonists and antagonists, and the motivations and causes of their behavior can be significantly. The last line of the book is " What do we care about the man? The important thing is the oil. "

Criticism

For Kurt Tucholsky, who admired Traven, the character of Mr. Collins was the only successful presentation of a businessman in the literature.

Name of the resistance group

The book eventually was the inspiration for the White Rose, a resistance group in Nazi Germany. After his arrest, the Gestapo interrogation on February 20, 1943 Hans Scholl stated, " arbitrary " to have the name:

This statement is to be treated with caution, possibly Hans Scholl wanted to conceal his motives, in order to protect the other members. Can be regarded as certain that Hans Scholl knew the book of Traven and appreciated.

Expenditure

• B. Traven: The White Rose. Books Gutenberg, Berlin 1929
• B. Traven: The White Rose. Diogenes Verlag, Zurich 1983. ISBN 3-257-21102-3 ( work edition Volume 5, ed. Edgar Päßler )

Itemization

• Literary work
• B. Traven
• Literature ( 20th century)
• Literature ( German )
• Novel, epic