Word: torsvan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unraveling the symbolism of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake will lift their noses and loose an excited bay if Traven's name is drawn across the conversation. And if, as now seems pretty certain (TIME, Aug. 16, 1948), B. Traven is the pen name of Chicago-born Berick Traven Torsvan Torsvan, 58, a shy recluse who has lived in Mexico since 1913 and runs a restaurant near Acapulco, Traven is at last in the same position as any other novelist; his fame must depend on the qualities that show up in his work, not on the personal identity that remains...