Conversations With Graham Greene

Author : Graham Greene
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0878055509

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Conversations with Graham Greene by Graham Greene Pdf

This collection of seventeen interviews covers fifty years. Here the eminent author of The Power and the Glory, The Third Man, and The Heart of the Matter speaks of himself, his life, and his works. Though reluctant to be interviewed, especially by an academic or journalist he did not know, Greene was more at ease in an interview with a personal friend, who he felt would be less likely to misunderstand or misquote him. Yet even his good friend V. S. Pritchett spent considerable time trying to pin him down for his 1978 interview. When he finally did arrange an interview, Pritchett tells that Greene's "flat conspiratorial, laughing voice . . ., of itself, makes him the best company I've known in the last forty years". Other interviewers--included here are V. S. Naipaul and Penelope Gilliatt--shared Pritchett's opinion, but many found that he avoided idle conversation for fear that his words would be misconstrued. Greene's anxiety was not without foundation. In an interview with Michael Menshaw, Greene explained: "It's got so I hate to say who I am or what I believe...A few years ago I told an interviewer I'm a gnostic. The next day's newspaper announced that I had become an agnostic". After such incidents, Greene turned to the anecdote--relating an experience with Fidel Castro or with Papa Doc Duvalier--to communicate in interviews with strangers. Nevertheless, in all the interviews Greene granted over the years, the reader hears very clearly the voice of a man whose conversation is as painfully honest and unpretentious as is his written prose. The interviews here are divided chronologically into four periods, loosely related to his subject matter or to his reputation at the time of theinterview. Thus the reader sees the development of the writer from a callow but gifted young man into one of the foremost men of letters in the English-speaking world.

Author : Marie-Francoise Allain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:987192121

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The other man. Conversations with Graham Greene by Marie-Francoise Allain Pdf

Author : Graham Greene,Marie-Françoise Allain
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0140071385

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The Other Man by Graham Greene,Marie-Françoise Allain Pdf

Author : Graham Greene
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781612198156

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Graham Greene: The Last Interview by Graham Greene Pdf

A master of twentieth century fiction, Graham Greene looks back on his life. This volume also includes several key interviews from throughout his long, fruitful career. Graham Greene led one of the most extraordinary lives of the twentieth century. The son of a Hertfordshire headmaster, he quickly discovered a love for writing, beginning a career that would last a lifetime. Greene's fascination with global politics took him around the world, to places that would become the settings for many of his most famous novels: Mexico (The Power and the Glory), Sierra Leone (The Heart of the Matter), and Haiti (The Comedians) - among dozens of other far-flung locations. He produced masterpieces throughout his life, many of which now stand as indisputably canonical: Brighton Rock, The End of the Affair, and The Quiet American to name but a few.

Author : Mike Hill,Jon Wise
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441161949

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The Works of Graham Greene by Mike Hill,Jon Wise Pdf

A comprehensive reference guide to the published writings of Graham Greene, this book surveys not only Greene's literary work - including his fiction, poetry and drama - but also his other published writings. Accessibly organised over five central sections, the book provides the most up-to-date listing available of Greene's journalism, his published letters and major interviews. The Writings of Graham Greene also includes a bibliography of major secondary writings on Greene and a substantial and fully cross-referenced index to aid scholars and researchers working in the field of 20th Century literature.

Author : Stan A. Vrana
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0810815427

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Interviews and Conversations with 20th-century Authors Writing in English by Stan A. Vrana Pdf

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Author : David Lodge
Publisher : Random House
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781448137794

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The Art of Fiction by David Lodge Pdf

In this entertaining and enlightening collection David Lodge considers the art of fiction under a wide range of headings, drawing on writers as diverse as Henry James, Martin Amis, Jane Austen and James Joyce. Looking at ideas such as the Intrusive Author, Suspense, the Epistolary Novel, Magic Realism and Symbolism, and illustrating each topic with a passage taken from a classic or modern novel, David Lodge makes the richness and variety of British and American fiction accessible to the general reader. He provides essential reading for students, aspiring writers and anyone who wants to understand how fiction works.

Author : Flor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192868312

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Graham Greene's Journeys in Spain and Portugal by Flor Pdf

In the 1970s and 1980s, Graham Greene adopted the yearly habit of touring Spain and Portugal in the company of his Spanish friend, the priest and university professor Leopoldo Durán. The most outstanding fruit of these trips, almost always in summer, was the inspiration for his major Hispanic novel, Monsignor Quixote (1982), a celebration of friendship above ideological, political, or religious differences, incorporating allusions to Cervantes' famous comic novel within a critical vision of post-Franco Spain. Graham Greene's Journeys in Spain and Portugal: Travels with My Priest reconstructs each of Greene's trips through the Iberian Peninsula between 1976 and 1989, detailing their preparations, itineraries, anecdotes, companions, topics of conversation, and often surprising repercussions. Carlos Villar Flor outlines the trips' biographical importance and fills numerous gaps of documented information on this final phase of Greene's life. His detailed inquiry into Greene's Iberian adventures with Durán also helps us better to understand the genesis and resonances of Monsignor Quixote, which over time became Greene's favourite of his own novels, and the subsequent television adaptation. The book also addresses incidents and aspects that, for one reason or another, never emerged in Durán's own account of their travels together, Graham Greene: Friend and Brother (1994). These include the possible motivations for Greene's first visit to Spain, related to his role as an informant for MI6; the mysterious visits to an old English lady located in Sintra; the writer's attempts in the early 1980s to establish links with Spanish socialists; or the fascinating story of a Spanish nobleman's suspicious proposal to create a Greene Foundation. Ultimately, Greene's trips to Spain and Portugal appear as more layered and intriguing than Durán's account suggests, whilst Durán himself emerges aptly as a complex and quixotic figure--as much the protagonist of this book as Greene.

Author : Mark Hawkins-Dady
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135314170

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Reader's Guide to Literature in English by Mark Hawkins-Dady Pdf

Reader's Guide Literature in English provides expert guidance to, and critical analysis of, the vast number of books available within the subject of English literature, from Anglo-Saxon times to the current American, British and Commonwealth scene. It is designed to help students, teachers and librarians choose the most appropriate books for research and study.

Author : Christopher Hull
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781643131016

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Our Man Down in Havana by Christopher Hull Pdf

When U.S. immigration authorities deported Graham Greene from Puerto Rico in 1954, the British author made an unplanned visit to Havana and the former MI6 officer had stumbled upon the ideal setting for a comic espionage story. Three years later, he returned in the midst of Castro’s guerrilla insurgency against a U.S.-backed dictator to begin writing his iconic novel Our Man in Havana. Twelve weeks after its publication, in January 1959, the Cuban Revolution triumphed, soon transforming a capitalist playground into a communist stronghold.Combining biography, history, politics, and a measure of psychoanalysis, Our Man Down in Havana investigates the real story behind Greene’s fiction. It includes his many visits to a pleasure island that became a revolutionary island, turning his chance involvement into a political commitment. His Cuban novel describes an amateur agent who dupes his intelligence chiefs with invented reports about “concrete platforms and unidentifiable pieces of giant machinery.” With eerie prescience, Greene’s satirical tale had foretold the Cold War’s most perilous episode, the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.

Author : Graham Greene
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307363770

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A World Of My Own by Graham Greene Pdf

Graham Greene was always deeply interested in the role played by the subconscious in his writing, and the private world of his dreams was one that he nurtured carefully, recording it almost daily in his dream diaries. Selecting from these dream diaries, he prepared this small treasure for publication just before his death in 1991— a last gift from a great writer to delight and entertain his readers.

Author : Graham Greene
Publisher : Random House
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409021001

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Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene Pdf

Driven away from his parish by a censorious bishop, Monsignor Quixote sets off across Spain accompanied by a deposed renegade mayor as his own Sancho Panza, and his noble steed Rocinante – a faithful but antiquated SEAT 600. Like Cervantes’s classic, this comic, picaresque fable offers enduring insights into our life and times.

Author : Hywel Dix
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441190987

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Postmodern Fiction and the Break-Up of Britain by Hywel Dix Pdf

This study explores how British identity has been explored and renegotiated by contemporary writers. It starts by examining the new emphasis on space and place that has emerged in recent cultural analysis, and shows how this spatial emphasis informs different literary texts. Having first analysed a series of novels that draw an implicit parallel between the end of the British Empire and the break-up of the unitary British state, the study explores how contemporary writing in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales contributes to a sense of nationhood in those places, and so contributes to the break-up of Britain symbolically. Dix argues that the break-up of Britain is not limited to political devolution in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. It is also an imaginary process that can be found occurring on a number of other conceptual coordinates. Feminism, class, regional identities and ethnic communities are all terrains on which different writers carry out a fictional questioning of received notions of Britishness and so contribute in different ways to the break-up of Britain.

Author : Graham Greene
Publisher : Random House
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409017400

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The Quiet American by Graham Greene Pdf

'The novel that I love the most is The Quiet American' Ian McEwan, Sunday Times bestselling author of Lessons Into the intrigue and violence of 1950s Saigon comes CIA agent Alden Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious 'Third Force'. As Pyle's naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, finds it hard to stand aside and watch. But even as Fowler intervenes he wonders why: for the greater good, or something altogether more complicated? WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ZADIE SMITH **One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**

Author : Joseph Pearce
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781586171599

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Literary Converts by Joseph Pearce Pdf

The 20th century has been marked both by belief and unbelief. While attendance at church has declined dramatically, the lives of many leaders have been influenced and inspired by Christianity. Joseph Pearce explores the world of some writers in the English language who have believed. Most of those included converted to Roman Catholicism and some to Anglicanism. The list includes Oscar Wilde, Evelyn Waugh, C.S. Lewis, Malcolm Muggeridge, Graham Greene, George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, Hilaire Belloc, G.K. Chesterton, Dorothy Sayers, T.S. Eliot and J.R.R. Tolkien.