Namangan davlat universiteti ingliz filologiyasi fakulteti amaliy ingliz tili kafedrasi

 
Graham Greene
(1904 - 1991) 
A great-nephew of Robert Louis Stevenson, Greene was the son 
of the headmaster of a school in Hertfordshire. Graham attended his 
fathers school, studied at the Oxford University. In the year of 
graduation (1925) he published a book of poetry “Babbling April”. 
During the next two years he married, became a journalist 
(eventually joined the staff of the London “Times” and converted to 
Roman Catholicism. After the publication of his first novel “The 
Man Within”(1929) he left “the Times” and became a free-lance 
writer and reviewer. He had a versatile talent being equally good as 
a novelist, essayist, short-stories writer and a playwright.
Greene is both a prolific writer and an experienced traveler, 
and over the years his novels have been set in a number of exotic 
places: “Stambool Train” (1932) on the Orient Express; “The Power 
and the Glory” (1940) in Mexico; “The Heart of the Matter (19480 
in Nigeria; “The Quiet American” (1956) in Vietnam; “A Burnt-Out 

---

Case (1961) in Central Africa; “The Comedians (1966) in Haity; “The Honorary Consul” (1973) in 
Argentina. 
Two important influences on Greene’s writing have been his Catholicism and the cinema. 
As a Catholic, Greene reflects on his religious convictions and probes the nature of good and evil in 
both the personal and doctrinal level. Greene has done excellent work both as a film critic and as a 
screenwriter.
Greene is known as the author of two genres: psychological detective novels or 
“entertainments”, and “serious novels”, as he called them. Both novels and entertainments are 
marked by careful plotting and charac-terization, but in the “serious novels” the inner world of the 
characters is more complex and the psychological analysis becomes deeper. The “entertainments” 
are, for the most part, literary thrillers, such as “A Gun for Sale” (1936), “The Ministry of Fear 
(1943), and “The Third Man” (1949). The novels belonging to the “serious” category are: “The 
Man Within” (1929), “It’s a Battlefield (1934), ”England Made Me” (1935), “Brighton Rock” 
(1938), “The Power and the Glory”(1940), “The Heart of the Matter”(1948), “The End of the 
Affair”(1951), “The Quiet American” (1955), “A Burnt-Out Case” (1961), “The Comedians” 
(1966).
“The Quiet American” is one of Graham Greene’s best works. It marks a new stage in the 
development of his talent. In “The Quiet American”, the author tells the truth about the war in 
Vietnam. The book deals with the war waged by the French colonizers against the Vietnamese 
people, who were fighting for their independence. It also presents the real nature of American 
diplomacy of that period. The novel conveys the idea that every nation has the right to decide its 
own future. Besides this, the author tries to convince the reader that no man, no journalist or writer 
in particular, can remain neutral; sooner or later he has to take sides. 
Among his latest works, there are several novels: “Doctor Fisher of Geneva or the Bomb 
Party” (1980), “Monsignor Quixote” (1982), “Getting to Know the General” (1984), “The Tenth 
Man” (1985), “The Captain and the Enemy” (1988). Besides, he wrote two volumes of 
autobiographies: “A Sort of Life” (1971) and “Ways of Escape” (1980).