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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

References in periodicals archive

According to Hull, British writer Graham Greenes unplanned visit to Havana inspired him "to resurrect a decade-old outline for an espionage story." Hull's book has a greater scope than the title might suggest, tracing the historical context of the tensions between East and West, love, capitalism, and the Cuban Missile Crisis, inter alia.

Christopher Hull: Our Man Down in Havana: The Story behind Graham Greene's Cold War Spy Novel

Combining biography, history, and politics, "Our Man Down in Havana: The Story Behind Graham Greene's Cold War Spy Novel" by Christopher Hull, PhD, (who is the Senior Lecturer in Spanish & Latin American Studies at the University of Chester, England) investigates the real story behind Greene's fictional one.

Our Man Down in Havana

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El substrato teologico en la obra de Graham Greene. Madrid: n.p.

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(7) Bergonzi writes that "the tone and attitude to religion in A Burnt-Out Case are wholly different, so much so that Evelyn Waugh assumed with some distress that it indicated a loss of faith on Greene's part, an assumption that Greene denied strongly" ("Graham Greene at Eighty" 777).

The dark night of the soul: suffering the cure in Graham Greene's a burnt-out case

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Although The Man Within My Head centers on Graham Greene, Iyer is largely uninterested in the biographical details of Greene's life, which, the critics agreed, makes the book difficult to classify: "part memoir, part travelogue, part ...

The Man Within My Head

He settled in Greece in the 1960s and became renowned as a travel writer, once described as a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene.

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Graham Greene's brilliant 1938 study of a murderous boy gangster receives ineffectual screen treatment in this 1964-set version of "Brighton Rock." Despite its vibrant evocation of the English seaside town where Greene set his tale of reckless youth, sexual dysfunction and what he called "the appalling strangeness of God's mercy," writer-director Rowan Joffe's first feature never shakes off the feel of a telepic with above-average production values, and its unsteady lead performances and often garish stylistic touches make a muddle of the source material's psychological acuity.

Brighton Rock