“He had no accomplice, except the credulity of other men.” (166)“You should dream more. Reality in our century is not something to be faced.”(6)"Our Man in Havana" is a comic story about a vacuum salesman who sends concocted reports back to MI-6 and forwards schematics of enemy weapons that look ...
Μέχρι πριν ένα μήνα δεν ήξερα καν ότι είχε μεταφραστεί στα ελληνικά, μέχρι που το βρήκα με ένα ευρώ σε παλαιοπωλείο. Χάρηκα, γιατί όσο να'ναι ο Γκράχαμ Γκριν έχει γίνει από τους αγαπημένους μου συγγραφείς, και όσο περισσότερα βιβλία του υπάρχουν στα ελληνικά, τόσο το καλύτερο για μένα. Αν και το ...
I don't remember now whether The Power And The Glory was the first Greene novel I read - it might have been The Third Man or Our Man in Havana. I mention this because The Confidential Agent was written in parallel with The Power And The Glory, working on one each morning, and switching to the oth...
Must we take a side? Set in Vietnam during the 1950's, The Quiet American explores the unheroic world of post-colonial compromise through the relationship between Fowler (a British correspondent) and Pyle (the quiet American of the title). Graham Greene mixes a murder mystery with a cautionary ta...
حفلة القنبلة أول كتاب أقرؤه لجراهام جرين، قرأت مذكراته قبل عام تقريبا ً، ولأنه من الكتاب الذين لا يرد ذكرهم كثيرا ً، حيث لا أذكر أني قرأت أو سمعت من يتحدث عنه أو عن كتبه، فلذا لم أكن متعجلا ً للتجربة، بعض الكتاب تشعر بضغط شديد للقراءة لهم، الكل يتحدث عنهم، مراجعات كتبهم في كل مكان، مع جراهام كن...
”Ah, he thought, Tolstoy should have lived in a small country--not in Russia, which was a continent rather than a country. And why does he write as if the worst thing we can do to our fellowman is kill him? Everybody has to die and everybody fears death, but when we kill a man we save him from hi...
This biography is a lively and irreverent one of the controversial writer and author of such modern classics as ‘The Third Man’, ‘Brighton Rock’ and ‘The Human Factor’, who died in 1991. Greene spent many years in building up a carefully controlled public persona, in which the many skeletons in ...
Getting To Know The General is a little known out-of-print nonfiction book by one of my favorite writers, Graham Greene. The story begins in 1976 when Greene inexplicably receives an invitation to visit Panama as the guest of then ruler General Omar Torrijos Herrar. He immediately accepts knowing...
Review first posted on BookLikes:http://brokentune.booklikes.com/post/...‘It’s possible, of course, just possible,’ C said, ‘that the leak came from abroad and that the evidence has been planted here. They would like to disrupt us, damage morale and hurt us with the Americans. The knowledge that ...
"England Made Me" is a novel by Graham Greene first published in 1935, it was republished as" The Shipwrecked" in 1953. I'm not sure why it was originally titled "England Made Me", and I have absolutely no idea why it was republished with the title "The Shipwrecked". Maybe if it had taken plac...
Father Quixote was peacefully tending to his parishioners at El Toboso when he received a letter from his bishop. The Holy See was promoting him into a monsignor, and all because he was endorsed by a bishop (a different one) who was once aided by Father Quixote in a time of need. This was a surpr...
"A Thinly Disguised Autobiography" (Fictitious Letters Never Sent or Written)Letter 1 (dated April 30, 1950 from CW to GG):Oh, my most desirable Godfather,I’m sorry to learn you’re suffering from writer’s block. I don't recall you mentioning this affliction before. I’m not the best one to give ad...
It sounds naïve, but I think Graham Greene really was never as good with the comedic as he was with the bitter and bizarre. The stories in this collection are okay, but in a lot of them o was confused by what tone he was going for- is "Dr. Crombie" meant as a comic elaboration on the cliche "mast...
Πρόκειται για ένα απο τα πλέον εμβληματικά noir έργα, γραμένο από τον Graham Green για να γίνει ταινία. Η σεναριακή γραφή όμως δεν αφαιρεί τίποτα από το βάρος, την αξία και την επίδραση που είχε το συγκεκριμένο έργο. Ο μεγάλος Άγγλος συγγραφέας, γράφοντας απλώς και μόνο ένα σενάριο έβαλε ένα σημα...
Three stars on Goodreads means "I liked it," but two stars means it was just "OK." Well, I liked this lightweight novella by Graham Greene, even though, ultimately, it was just OK. So, it gets two stars, even though I liked it. Dig where I'm coming from here?The story covers about two weeks in th...
"When the legend becomes fact, print the legend."Those aren't Graham Greene's words; they come from the finale of the 1962 John Ford western movie classic, The Man Who Shot Libery Valance, and they refer to how a mythos can be created from a lie; how the sad, banal truth rarely stands a chance ag...
I'm not quite sure what criteria Graham Greene used to draw the dividing line between his "entertainments" and his serious works. In many ways, this novel was quite similar to Brighton Rock, which was his next novel and classified in the "serious" group. This earlier work had a little bit more ...