Government
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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In the shadow of oppression and exploitation, B. Traven's Government thrusts readers into the brutal realities of rural Mexico, where indigenous communities are crushed beneath the heel of a corrupt and indifferent bureaucracy. The novel chronicles the tragic fate of an Indian chief forced to provide labourers for a government-mandated road project, trapping ordinary men in a system of servitude that masquerades as civic duty — a savage indictment of colonialism dressed in the language of progress. Traven, the famously reclusive and mysterious author best known for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, writes with the unflinching moral fury of a witness to injustice, stripping away any romantic illusion about the state and its instruments of power. Government forms part of his celebrated Jungle Novels cycle, a sweeping portrait of Mexican Indian life under the Díaz dictatorship, and stands as one of 20th-century literature's most searing critiques of institutional violence. For readers who believe the machinery of government is neutral, this novel offers a devastating correction.
Author: B. Traven
Format: Paperback
Genre: Fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the shadow of oppression and exploitation, B. Traven's Government thrusts readers into the brutal realities of rural Mexico, where indigenous communities are crushed beneath the heel of a corrupt and indifferent bureaucracy. The novel chronicles the tragic fate of an Indian chief forced to provide labourers for a government-mandated road project, trapping ordinary men in a system of servitude that masquerades as civic duty — a savage indictment of colonialism dressed in the language of progress. Traven, the famously reclusive and mysterious author best known for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, writes with the unflinching moral fury of a witness to injustice, stripping away any romantic illusion about the state and its instruments of power. Government forms part of his celebrated Jungle Novels cycle, a sweeping portrait of Mexican Indian life under the Díaz dictatorship, and stands as one of 20th-century literature's most searing critiques of institutional violence. For readers who believe the machinery of government is neutral, this novel offers a devastating correction.