The Honorary Consul - Couverture rigide

Greene, Graham

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0370014863 ISBN 13 : 9780370014869

Editeur : The Bodley Head Ltd, 1973

Synopsis

When the alcoholic British 'Honorary Consul' in an Argentinian town is kidnapped by a band of revolutionaries, a local doctor negotiates with his captors and with the authorities for the man's release, but the corruption of both soon comes to the fore. From the author of OUR MAN IN HAVANA and THE HUMAN FACTOR.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

In a provincial Argentinean town, Charley Fortnum, a British consul with dubious authority and a weakness for drink, is kidnapped by Paraguayan revolutionaries who have mistaken him for the American ambassador. Dr. Eduardo Plarr, a local physician with his own divided loyalties, serves as the negotiator between the rebels and the authorities. These fumbling characters play out an absurd drama of failure, hope, love, and betrayal against a backdrop of political chaos. The Honorary Consul is both a gripping novel of suspense and a penetrating psychological and sociological study of personal and political corruption. This Penguin Classics edition features an introduction by Mark Bosco.

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Revue de presse

"Perhaps the most enduring novel that even he has give us" ( Daily Mail)

"The tension never relaxes and one reads hungrily from page to page, dreading the moment it will end" (Auberon Waugh Evening Standard)

"Greene's work attempts to link the serious moral imagination with the spirit of adventure and romance and to extend the remapping of imaginative geography first undertaken by Conrad" ( Times Higher Education Supplement)

"A superb storyteller with a gift for provoking controversy" ( New York Times)

"Greene had the sharpest eyes for trouble, the finest nose for human weaknesses, and was pitilessly honest in his observations... For experience of a whole century he was the man within" (Norman Sherry Independent)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Bodley Head Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1973
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0370014863
• ISBN 13: 9780370014869
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 335
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible