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
Greene is both a prolific writer and an experienced traveler, and over the years his
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 are marked by careful plotting and characterization, but in the
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“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).
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