TEORIA DA CONSPIRAÇÃO (XIII)
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"There is no clear beginning or end to the book [The Atrocity Exhibition], and it does not follow any of the conventional novelistic standards: the protagonist (such as he is) changes name with each chapter/story (Talbert, Traven, Travis, Talbot, etc), just as his role and his visions of the world around him seems to change constantly. (Ballard explains in the 1990 annotated edition that the character's name was inspired by reclusive novelist B. Traven, whose identity is still not certainly known)".



Chapter titles

1. The Atrocity Exhibition
2. The University of Death
3. The Assassination Weapon
4. You: Coma: Marilyn Monroe
5. Notes Towards a Mental Breakdown
6. The Great American Nude
7. The Summer Cannibals
8. Tolerances of the Human Face
9. You and Me and the Continuum
10. Plan for the Assassination of Jacqueline Kennedy
11. Love and Napalm: Export U.S.A.
12. Crash!
13. The Generations of America
14. Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan
15. The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered as a Downhill Motor Race (aqui)

(ilustrações de Phoebe Gloeckner para a edição de 1990)

(2010)

TEORIA DA CONSPIRAÇÃO (I)
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B. Traven



"B. Traven (dates unknown, possibly 1890-1969) was the pen name of an enigmatic twentieth century novelist whose most famous work is the novel The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, filmed by John Huston in 1948. The name B. Traven appeared as author of many other novels, including The Death Ship and the epic Jungle Novel series, which is a description of government corruption and an Indian uprising set at the birth of the Mexican Revolution. His writing portrays a bleak and violent world and is notable for anti-capitalist and pro-anarchist sympathies. While his identity has been the subject of much speculation, the current consensus is that the writer who used the name B. Traven was a man known for different periods of his life as Ret Marut (1907-1924), Traven Torsvan (1925-1951) and Hal Croves (1952-1969). There is however, no general agreement about his original identity; one theory is that he was born in Chicago in 1890, name unknown. Another is that he was born in 1882 a member of the German working-class called Herman Albert Otto Maximilian Feige, this being a name given by Ret Marut in 1923 which has since been confirmed as that of a real individual whose biography dovetails with that of Marut". (daqui)

(2010)