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

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