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

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 […]

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

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 […]