A World of My Own (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Graham Greene
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Diary
- Time of Work: 1965-1989
- Genres: Nonfiction, Diary
- Subjects: Psychology or psychologists, Dreams, Reality, Kings, queens, or royalty, Rivers or waterways, Depression, mental, Mexico or Mexicans, Erotica
Dreams were always a preeminent feature in Graham Greene’s fiction. On his wedding night, Pinkie Brown, the unreflective boy gangster of Brighton Rock (1938), dreams of being surrounded by mortal enemies in a schoolyard until a dead friend gives him a razor with which to slash his way to freedom. In The Power and the Glory (1940), the anonymous whiskey priest dreams on the eve of his execution that an adolescent girl he once befriended serves him communion, despite the fact that he has been denied a final confession. Thomas Fowler, the cynical narrator of The Quiet...
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