Word: torsvan
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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...
...story proved beyond a doubt that el gringo was born in Chicago of Swedish parents 58 years ago; that he had lived in Mexico since 1913; that he had once worked in the Tampico oilfields. It proved that his name was Berick Torsvan-and that he was B. Traven...
Spota hurried there, and by some sharp questioning compiled a list of some 50 Americans who might have been drawing checks on Acapulco banks. One of them was Berick Torsvan, the proprietor of El Parque Cach...