“His very personal religion of man”: the reception of Graham Greene’s novels in state socialist Romania

6 octombrie 2021 · de Andrei Gorzo | în English | etichetat A Burnt-Out Case, A Gun for Sale, Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, Berkhamsted, Brighton Rock, Catholic culture, Charles Péguy, Confidential Agent, Edmund Wilson, England Made Me, François Mauriac, G. K. Chesterton, Gabriel García Márquez, Georg Lukács, Georges Simenon, Gianina Daniela Popovici-Sabău, Graham Greene, Graham Greene International Festival, It's a Battlefield, James Hadley Chase, James Wood, John Banville, Mary McCarthy, Mihai Iovănel, Nicolae Steinhardt, Our Man in Havana, Partisan Review, Petre Solomon, Radu Lupan, Richard Greene, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Stone, Stamboul Train, state socialist Romania, Terry Eagleton, The Comedians, The End of the Affair, The Heart of the Matter, The Honorary Consul, The Human Factor, The Ministry of Fear, The Power and the Glory, The Quiet American, The Third Man, Travels with My Aunt, Wilkie Collins, Zane Grey

This is a draft for a talk that I recently gave in Berkhamsted, where I had the honour of being invited to the 22nd edition of the Graham Greene International Festival (30 September – 3 October 2021). Let me start by saying that I’m absolutely thrilled to be here at the Graham Greene International Festival. Thank […]

Playing literary detective

2 noiembrie 2020 · de Andrei Gorzo | în English | etichetat Brighton Rock, Catherine Walston, Claude Edmonde-Magny, Graham Greene, Jonathan Wise, L’Âge du roman américain, Michael Hill, Richard Greene, Russian Roulette The Life and Times of Graham Greene, The Age of the American Novel, The Graham Greene Birthplace Trust, The Ministry of Fear, The Quiet American

Reading Professor Richard Greene’s magnificent new biography of Graham Greene, I came across a character named Claudette Monde – a French literary critic with whom Greene claimed (to Catherine Walston) to have had an affair (in September 1946 or thereabouts). Since no French literary critic with that name seems to have existed, the biographer concludes […]

Reworking Graham Greene: Robert Stone’s „A Flag for Sunrise”

5 iulie 2020 · de Andrei Gorzo | în English | etichetat A Burnt-Out Case, A Flag for Sunrise, Alexander Dubček, Alfred Hitchcock, American empire, Brighton Rock, Carol Reed, Che Guevara, Child of Light, Cold War, colonial novel, counterculture, cultural imperialism, Death of the Black-Haired Girl, Dog Soldiers, drug culture, Fredric Jameson, Gabriel García Márquez, Graham Greene, Heart of the Darkness, Ho Chi Minh, J. G. Ballard, John D. McClure, Joseph Conrad, Madison Smartt Bell, Martin Amis, neo-colonialism, Outerbridge Reach, post-colonial, Robert Solotaroff, Robert Stone, Salvador Allende, Terry Eagleton, The Comedians, The Eye You See With: Selected Nonfiction, The Heart of the Matter, The Honorary Consul, The Human Factor, The Power and the Glory, The Quiet American, The Third Man, Thomas Hardy, whiskey priest

Graham Greene’s influence on the American writer Robert Stone (1937-2015) was always stated by reviewers as self-evident; it is a commonplace in English-language reviews of Stone’s novels. In his 2020 biography of Stone, Child of Light, Madison Smartt Bell dismisses these comparisons, insisting that the similarities between the two novelists were superficial – a matter […]

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“His very personal religion of man”: the reception of Graham Greene’s novels in state socialist Romania

Playing literary detective

Reworking Graham Greene: Robert Stone’s „A Flag for Sunrise”