A Sort of Life (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Graham Greene
- First Published: 1971
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: 1904-1932
- Setting: Berkhamsted, Oxford, and London, England
- Principal Characters: Graham Greene
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Memory, Authors or writers, England or English people, Life, philosophy of
Form and Content
The circumstances surrounding Graham Greene’s publication of his first book-length autobiography, A Sort of Life, illustrate the duality that characterizes the author and his work. Greene once told a meeting of the Leicester University Literary Society that he had begun writing the book as therapy. Suffering from such deep depression that he feared a complete mental breakdown, Greene asked his psychoanalyst to administer electric shock treatments; instead, his analyst told Greene to write down a description of his earliest memories....
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