This collection of fourteen essays by American and English
scholars -- many of them hitherto unpublished and all of them
selected with a view to avoiding the duplication of essays already
familiar and available -- offers new testimony of the range and
accomplishments of Graham Greene's talent. The essays vary from
considerations of general topics to critical analyses of single
novels, from a discussion of Greene as a writer of Christian
tragedy to a witty, irreverent assessment of The Power and the
Glory. The authors here are chiefly concerned with the novels,
though frequent allusions reveal something of the nature and
importance of the "entertainments" and the travel books.
A number of the essayists focus upon Greene's commitment to the
Roman Catholic faith and the definition it has given to his work.
As a writer he is shown to be preoccupied with a duel vision of
human frailty and of God's saving grace, a vision found by some to
assert sin to the point of virtual heresy, though it never loses
sight of that mercy which may catch up a soul "between the stirrup
and the ground." As one essay points out, traces of this vision are
to be found in Greene's earlier works as well as in his
entertainments. Greene's own particular bent as a Catholic writer
is brought out by a comparison with Fracois Maruiac; another essay
is concerned with the tension that exists between the life of art
and the life of sanctity.
Round out this presentation of Greene's accomplishments are
discussions of his work in the dram, the short story, and as a
motion picture critic. Finally, this collection is notable for its
inclusion of the most comprehensive bibliography of Greene's work
and the criticism of them yet published.
Graham Greene emerges from this composite judgment as a writer
of consummate artistry who sees behind the fa?ade the emptiness of
a secular world.
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