Greene, Graham (Vol. 1) - Greene, Graham 1904–1991
Greene, Graham 1904–1991
British novelist, author of the novels The Power and the Glory, The Quiet American, The End of the Affair, and The Comedians (among many others), and a recent autobiography, A Sort of Life. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 15-16.)
What is the meaning of the word "entertainment" as Greene uses it? What relationship have these entertainments to the mystery story genre? Does this thriller form carry any serious intent?… [If] any distinction between the two types of work ["entertainments" and "novels"] is valid, I suspect it will have more to do with a shift in the entertainments from theological to political emphasis than with the evaporation of seriousness.
In what is conventionally called the "novels" such as The Power and the Glory and A Burnt-Out Case, Greene gives us a religious vision with political overtones; whereas his entertainments, A Gun for Sale or...
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