Word: traven
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pynchon the man remains as mysterious and private as always. Even the critical acclaim for V. could not get him to reveal himself to the public. As publicity shy as J.D. Salinger, as shadowy as B. Traven, Pynchon, who is now 35, does not grant interviews and will not allow himself to be photographed. Those who knew him at Cornell in the mid-1950s recall a tall, thin man who breakfasted on spaghetti and soda pop, maintained an above-90 average in the physics department and was very self-critical where his creative writing was concerned...
Treasure of the Sierra Madre. John Huston's finest, most vivid film portrays three bums propsecting for gold in Mexico. Based on a novel by a mysterious Mexican author, B. Traven, the story is an adventure weaved so tightly it becomes allegory. But such a description hides the style of the film. Its portraiture, not just of characters but of Tampico and the bum's life, is as skillful as could be, and the mood ranges from harsh humiliation of Bogart by Alfonso Bedoya, the bandit chief, to dreamy paradise that Walter Huston finds...