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Greene, Graham 

Born Oct. 2, 1904. in London. English author.

Greene studied at Oxford University. His novels are permeated with meditations on people who have been maimed by social conditions (England Made Me, 1935). The sincere nobility of his heroes contrasts with the heartlessness of adherents of morals and religion (The Power and the Glory, 1940; The Heart of the Matter, 1948. Russian translation. 1960). In The Quiet American (1955, Russian translation 1959), which is set in Vietnam, and Our Man in Havana (1958, Russian translation. 1959) Greene exposes US imperialist policies. The Comedians (1966, Russian translation, 1966) is filled with an angry condemnation of the fascist dictatorship in Haiti. In A Burnt-out Case (1961, Russian translation, 1964), Greene showed the self-sacrifice of the staff of a hospital for lepers. Greene visited the USSR in 1957 and 1960.

WORKS

Works, vols. 1–4. London, 1939–55.
Collected Essays. London, 1969.
Travels With My Aunt. London, 1969. In Russian translation:Puteshestvie bez karty. Moscow, 1961.

REFERENCES

Palievskii, P. “Fantomy.” Novyi mir, 1962, no. 6.
Ivasheva, V. V. “Grem Grin.” In her Angliiskaia literatura:XXvek. Moscow, 1967.
De Vitis, A. G. Greene. New York, 1964. (Contains a bibliography.)

E. V. KORNILOV