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Graham Greene (1904 - 1991)
Category: English Literature
Born: October 2, 1904
Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England
Died: April 3, 1991
Vevey, Switzerland
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Greeneland: the World of Graham Greene
Find a biography, bibliography, information about over a dozen of Greene's novels, comments by Greene on writing, and a review of critical praise by peers including Evelyn Waugh, William Golding, George Orwell, and others.
"The three novels...Brighton Rock, The Heart of the Matter, and The End of the Affair...all have claims to greatness; they are as intense and penetrating and disturbing as an inquisitor's gaze. After his modest start as a novelist under the influence of Joseph Conrad and John Buchan, Greene's masterly facility at concocting thriller plots and his rather blithely morbid sensibility had come together, at a high level of intelligence and passion, with the strict terms of an inner religious debate that had not yet wearied him."
-— John Updike | | Literary Traveler
Read an essay titled "Graham Greene's Vietnam," in which the author writes about sites in Ho Chi Minh City chronicled in Greene's novel The Quiet American.
"Given the intervening twenty years of war and twenty more of political isolation, it would come as no surprise to find that none of Greene's old haunts in Vietnam are still standing. But not only are they still there, many of them have been restored to better than mint condition. Indeed, Vietnam today is full of astonishing contrasts to the opium-soaked, decadent world of Greene's novel, and the irony of some of these contrasts can only be deliberate." | | The (Mis)Guided Dream of Graham Greene
A biographical essay explores Greene's life and enduring legacy.
"Graham Greene was a great novelist of a special kind. Unlike many literary practitioners in this century, he did not experiment with language, subvert traditional narrative, or choose exotic subjects. He simply used the powerful imagination that led him to speak of his work as a 'guided dream.' That imagination—fired, at least during the great middle years, by intense moral and religious perception—made Greene's fiction the best-realized portrayal in its time of the drama of the human soul." |
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Contacts: The Graham Greene Birthplace Trust www.grahamgreenebt.org |
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