The Way of Response:
MARTIN BUBER
Selections from His Writings
Edited by Nahum N. Glatzer

A gathering of sayings from
Martin Buber's major works,
in in which he bore witness to
man's present situation, and
traced—with passion and
precision—the path of
individual response.

"From the heart and spirit of
the great modern master of
the wisdom about the seif and
the eternal mystery of the
'eternal thou'."
—Reinhold Niebuhr

"Martin Buber was the foremost
Jewish religious thinker of our
time and one of the world's most
influential philosophers....
He served as a kind of patron saint
for such towering Christian
intellectuals as Paul Tillich,
Reinhold Niebuhr, Jacques
Maritain, and Gabriel Marcel."
—The New York Times
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B. Traven,
Continued
By CHARLES H. MILLER
MEXICO CITY.
B. TRAVEN recently granted
an "almost-interview" to
the Mexican magazine Siempre!
It was bis first press confronta-
tion in 41 years of public fame
and private seclusion. The long
feature story was homey and
sympathetic; it was gamished with
photos of his library and
the stairway to his study. There
were reproductions of editorial
letters and Statements from
Traven. There were two photos
of his wife, who has her own
career as translator and busi-
ness agent for his many editions
in 30-odd langtiages. By request,
there were no photos of Traven
himself. Instead, there was a
full-page shot of his bust as it
is being executed by his old friend
Federico Canessi.
This is the bust that lifted
the reclusive curtain—for it was
seen and photographed by Tra-
ven fans who had entrée to
Canessi's studio. Some of the
photos leaked to the press and
so forced an interview.
B. Traven, bom in Chicago in
1890 as Traven Torsven, is a
soft-spoken and dignified man
who does not and never did be-
lieve in Interviews, personal pub-
licity for authors, or any cult of
personality. He told Luis Suarez
of Siempre! little more than he
has written repeatedly to the
press since his sudden rise to
fame in 1926: "My life belongs
to me, my work to <the public."
He stated once more that he
was brn in the United States
of Scandinavian parents; he ad-
mitted that he has lived in Ger-
many at times, but denied
German ancestry. He described
how the Third Reich had banned
his books and confiscated his
German earnings because of his
novel "Government," an exposé
of regional Mexican dictators.

HE defended "Rosa Bianca,"
which is the most important
novel as yet written on the
Mexican-United States "petro-
leum Problem." And he said
that at one time he was ready
to sell every book in his preci-
ous library to help support the
Loyalists in Spain's Civil War.
Why all the mjrstery and si-
lence ? He stated once more that
overeager Joumalists and edi-
tors had made the myth. He
himself had intended none; he
had intended only to preserve
his own privacy. He spoke of his
love for his adopted Mexico and
said that modern Mexico (as op-
poscd to the pre-Revolutionary

MR. MILLER, a freelance author
now living in Mexico, is writing a
study of the works of B. Traven.