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Graham Greene
Graham Greene
其他書名
Man of Paradox
出版Loyola University Press, 1994
主題Biography & Autobiography / Literary FiguresLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Writing / Fiction WritingLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
ISBN08294077079780829407709
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=VS55ngEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋In this collection of essays, A. F. Cassis sheds light on the mystery of Graham Greene. Novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, journalist, and playwright, Greene (1904-91) is considered one of the finest literary talents of the twentieth century. He combined his abilities as a wonderful storyteller and a master craftsman to bring respectability to the thriller genre, or what the author himself called "entertainments." In his writings, Greene expressed serious and controversial views on religious, political, and social issues. Cassis reveals the private side of Greene - an opinionated, charming, articulate, controversial, complex person who was always at odds with conventional wisdom. The fifty-seven excerpts included in this book contain interviews with Greene as well as personal impressions, diary entries, articles, essays, literary pieces, and recollections by friends and contemporaries that span fifty years. Topics range from Greene's conversion to Catholicism to the writer's role in society. Contributors include such well-known writers as Anthony Burgess, John Mortimer, V. S. Pritchett, Kathleen Raine, A. L. Rowse, Israel Shenker, Kenneth Tynan, and Evelyn Waugh.