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A Study in Greene - Graham Greene and the Art of the Novel (Hardcover, New)
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A Study in Greene - Graham Greene and the Art of the Novel (Hardcover, New)
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Bernard Bergonzi has been reading Graham Greene for many years; he
still possesses the original edition of The End of the Affair that
he bought when it was published in 1951. After so much recent
attention to Greene's life he believes it is time to return to his
writings; in this critical study Bergonzi makes a close examination
of the language and structure of Greene's novels, and traces the
obsessive motifs that recur throughout his long career. Most
earlier criticism was written while Greene was still alive and
working, and was to some extent provisional, as the final shape of
his work was not yet apparent. In this book Bergonzi is able to
take a view of Greene's whole career as a novelist, which extended
from 1929 to 1988. He believes that Greene's earlier work was his
best, combining melodrama, realism, and poetry, with Brighton Rock,
published in 1938, a moral fable that draws on crime fiction and
Jacobean tragedy, as the masterpiece. The novels that Greene
published after the 1950s were very professional examples of
skilful story-telling but represented a decline from this high
level of achievement. Bergonzi challenges assumptions about the
nature of Greene's debt to cinema, and attempts to clarify the
complexities and contradictions of his religious ideas. Although
this book engages with questions that arise in academic discussions
of Greene, it is written with general readers in mind.
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