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Gangreene.(The Life of Graham Greene, Volume Three: 1955-1991)(Book Review)
Norman Sherry The Life of Graham Greene, Volume Three: 1955-1991. Viking, 906 pages, $39.95
Graham Greene, as Eliot wrote of Baudelake, had "a true form of acedia, arising from the unsuccessful struggle towards the spiritual life." Damnation, for him, was "an immediate form of salvation" from the ennui of modern existence. Like Baudelaire, "he could not escape suffering and could not transcend it, so he attracted pain to himself."
Greene frequented opium dens in Indochina and whorehouses around the world. His life was punctuated by suicide attempts, multiple mistresses, and emotional crises. His art was the poetry of departure, the fiction of flight, ...
- Works of Graham Greene: Critical Commentary
- Reference information from: Monarch Notes Greene, Graham January 1, 1963 700+ words
...surrounding the critical evaluations of Graham Greene's works. On the whole, it...elicited such diverse criticisms as Graham Greene. He has been called a supreme...diabolical insincerity in so doing ("Graham Greene and the Intelligentsia," Partisan...
- Graham Greene's Unfinished Murder Mystery
- Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered ROBERT SIEGEL August 26, 2009 700+ words
...Things Considered 08-26-2009 Graham Greene's Unfinished Murder Mystery...lovers. They are the words of Graham Greene, the great 20th century English...is not the work of the mature Graham Greene who wrote novels like "The Power...
- Graham Greene's Thrillers and the 1930s.
- Magazine article from: Style DeCoste, Damon Marcel September 22, 1997 700+ words
...cough. He began to write . . . . Graham Greene, It's a Battlefield (1934...our greatest living writer," Graham Greene's place in literary history...entertainments," namely Peter Wolfe's Graham Greene, The Entertainer, published...
- Ways of escape; Graham Greene.(Graham Greene, 100 years after his birth)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) October 2, 2004 700+ words
...sentimental and argumentative THE late Graham Greene was born 100 years ago on October...his politics seem ephemeral. Graham Greene is defined by his fiction, and...itself is lived most vividly in Graham Greene's own words. The Life of Graham...
- Works of Graham Greene: Life And Works Of Graham Greene
- Reference information from: Monarch Notes Greene, Graham January 1, 1963 700+ words
...01-1963 Life And Works Of Graham Greene One of the most prolific and talented writers of modern times, Graham Greene was born in Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire...School, and his uncle, Sir W. Graham Greene, K.C.B., held the position...
- Biographer reveals Graham Greene's life with bear necessity
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London DAVID LISTER July 28, 1994 700+ words
GRAHAM GREENE, novelist, spy, adventurer and seducer...Ted is revealed in the new biography, Graham Greene; The Man Within, published today by...a teddy bear. So here's this tough Graham Greene, this dashing spy in one of the hotspots...
- Graham Greene: the ugly Englishman? (two biographies present differing views of...
- Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report Hardigg, Viva October 31, 1994 700+ words
Graham Greene thrived on stealth in his novels and...Sherry, an Englishman whose The Life of Graham Greene, Volume Two: 1939-1955 is an authorized...Michael Shelden, an American who wrote Graham Greene: The Man Within without the cooperation...
- GRAHAM GREENE LEAVES 20 YEARS OF HIS DREAMS.(LIFE & LEISURE)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) November 8, 1994 700+ words
Byline: RICHARD EDER Graham Greene enters a poetry competition and...noticed, grown a mustache.'' Graham Greene is dividing a wartime ration of...unpredictable allure. I would not want Graham Greene to tell me his dreams; any more...
