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The Death Ship : ウィキペディア英語版 | The Death Ship
''The Death Ship'' (German title: ''Das Totenschiff'') is a novel by the pseudonymous author known as B. Traven. Originally published in German in 1926, and in English in 1934, it was Traven's first major success and is still the author's second best known work after ''The Treasure of the Sierra Madre''. Owing to its scathing criticism of bureaucratic authority, nationalism, and abusive labor practices, it is often described as an anarchist novel. ==Plot summary==
Set just after World War I, ''The Death Ship'' describes the predicament of merchant seamen who lack documentation of citizenship and cannot find legal residence or employment in any nation. The narrator is Gerard Gales, a US sailor who claims to be from New Orleans, and who is stranded in Antwerp without passport or working papers. Unable to prove his identity or his eligibility for employment, Gales is repeatedly arrested and deported from one country to the next, by government officials who do not want to be bothered with either assisting or prosecuting him. When he finally manages to find work, it is on the ''Yorikke'', (possibly a reference to the Shakespeare play "Hamlet") the dangerous and decrepit ship of the title, where undocumented workers from around the world are treated as expendable slaves. The term ''death ship'' refers to any boat so decrepit that it is worth more to its owners overinsured and sunk than it would be worth afloat. The title of the book is translated directly from the German ''Das Totenschiff''; in English, they are called ''coffin ships''.
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