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Onsdag 15. februar 2012

Graham Greene

The New York Times

Artikler om Graham Greene fra nytimes.com. Senest opdateret 1. januar 2012
  • Fellow Traveler

    THE MAN WITHIN MY HEAD By Pico Iyer 242 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $25.95. ''Wilson sat on the balcony of the Bedford Hotel with his bald pink knees thrust against the ironwork.'' Those who love Graham Greene -- and their numbers are legion -- will recognize this sentence, the first line of his quietly devastating novel ''The Heart of the Matter,''...

  • I.H.T. OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR; In the Footsteps of Graham Greene

    For Graham Greene, travel was the driver, the device which framed the greatest work of a great writer. From a childhood home in the historic but forgettable English market town of Berkhamsted he journeyed widely -- from Mexico to Vietnam, Vienna to Havana, Haiti to the Congo -- forever mining literary material. But his most important journey never...

  • The Screen's Seduction of Graham Greene

    THE British novelist Graham Greene was a connoisseur of human frailty: he savored the bouquet of sin. He was, unlike most of his countrymen, Roman Catholic, and unlike most practitioners of the literary arts, entirely comfortable with the movies. His religious affiliation was well known, to the point where, at the height of his fame, he bristled at...

Wikipedia

Henry Graham Greene (2. oktober 1904 – 3. april 1991) var en fremtrædende engelsk forfatter og kritiker hvis værker behandler det moderne menneskes flertydighed, den ambivalente moral eller politiske sager i moderne omgivelser.

Greene protesterede imod at han blev klassificeret som "katolsk forfatter", trods det at hans religion præger alle hans bøger.

Flere af hans største værker (f.eks. Brighton Rock, The Heart of the Matter og The Power and the Glory) er romersk-katolske i deres udtryksform.

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