The Death Ship (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: B. Traven
- First Published: 1926
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social morality
- Time of Work: Early 1920’s
- Setting: Europe and the Mediterranean Sea
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism, Sea story
- Subjects: Suffering, Self, Social issues, 1920’s, Human behavior, Sea or seafaring life, Shipwrecks, Eastern Europe or eastern Europeans
- Locales: Europe, Mediterranean
Characters Discussed
Gerald Gales, an American seaman without a passport who wanders through Europe in the period following World War I and eventually joins the crew of a “death ship.” He arrives in Antwerp, Belgium, as a plain sailor on the SSTuscaloosa out of New Orleans, Louisiana. When his ship makes an early departure while he spends a night ashore, Gales discovers that in the aftermath of the war, European authorities have no interest in assisting an undocumented working-class alien, and he is pushed from Belgium to Holland to France and finally to Spain,...
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