¿Esperanza was Traven's Daughter?
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The Story of Esperanza Lopez Mateos, Henry Schnautz and B.Traven |
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All Rights Reserved, All Material Copyright 2008-2011 by Henry Schnautz and Terry Priest |
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| Henry Schnautz (1947) | Esperanza Lopez Mateos (1946) |
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La Carta y el Recuerdo |
Esperanza wrote a short story in 1943 about a young woman and the death of her friend, an aging writer, a revolutionary, who wanted to think he could get better and make a life with the woman. It may be the truth she couldn't say aloud. 'I wanted you to see it for many reasons,' she told Henry Schnautz. |
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| you don't know me... | In 1992, Henry got a letter from a Traven researcher that started off "You don't know me," that set off an exchange of letters that included Henry's summary of what he knew of the relationship between Traven and Esperanza. Michael Baumann, an author on Traven gets involved, but neither researcher knew what to make of it, as it contradicted virtually everything they knew about Traven. | |
| Who is B. Traven? |
"Everywhere the building of a prison is the first step in the organization of a civilized state.” The undisputably great writer B. Traven was a mysterious author of the 20s and 30s who wrote stories of life and politics from the Mexican jungle. Very little was known at the time who Traven really was. Today, no one is still really sure. |
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| Esperanza Lopez Mateos | Translator and business agent of B. Traven, sister to the president of Mexico, cousin and sister in law to filmmaker Gabriel Figueroa, who lived in her house, mountain climber, stenographer for Vicente Lombardo Toledano - an unforgettable woman for several men. | |
| Henry Schnautz | The man from Indiana who went to Mexico to be a guard for Leon Trotsky. | |
| Trotsky Guard | An eyewitness account of the Trotsky compound in the weeks before his death. | |
| Images of Mexico 1941-46 | photos by Henry Schnautz | |
| Letters 1940-43 | ||
| Letters 1943-45 | ||
| Nuremberg 1945 | ||
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San Andreas Tuxtla 1946
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Letters 1946
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New York trip Jan 1947
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New York trip Jan 1948
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I will never be able to return to the
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Letters 1949-51
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Hal Croves - 1951
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| Mexico Timeline |
| Gabriel Figueroa - Memorias 2005 |
| Gabriel Figueroa - Todo Mexico - Interview with Elena Poniatowska |
| 3 Possibilities |
| Connections - in La Carta y El Recuerdo |
| The Story in Pictures - a work in progress |
| Henry Schnautz Paintings |
| Gonzalo de Murga |
| Books about B.Traven - cheap books, short descriptions |
| Traven Links |
| Old Introduction |
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