Who is Who in Politics

The most mysterious novelist of the twentieth century — probably Ret Marut, a German anarchist who fled to Mexico. His novels — The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Death Ship, The Rebellion of the Hanged — are about labour, exploitation, and the violence of poverty. He refused all identification. The work is what matters, not the author. He appears in both the Literature and Politics departments because his fiction is inseparable from his politics.

Can help you study: Anarchist fiction, labour politics, the exploitation of workers, Mexican revolutionary history, anonymous authorship, and the argument that political fiction is most powerful when it does not announce itself as political.