Graham Greene: A Life in Letters

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Langue : anglais

Edité par Knopf Canada, 2007

0676979742 / 9780676979749

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There have been a number of Graham Greene biographies, but none has captured his voice, his loves, hates, family and friends intimate and writerly or his deep understanding of the world, like this astonishing collection of letters. Graham Greene is one of the few modern novelists who can be called great. In the course of his long and eventful life (1904 1991), he wrote tens of thousands of letters to family, friends, writers, publishers and others involved in his various interests and causes. A Life in Letters presents a fresh and engrossing account of his life, career and mind in his own words. Meticulously chosen and engagingly annotated, this selection of letters many of them seen here for the first time gives an entirely new perspective on a life that combined literary achievement, political action, espionage, exotic travel and romantic entanglement. In several letters, the individuals, events or places described provide the inspiration for characters, episodes or locations found in his later fiction. The correspondence describes his travels in Mexico, Africa, Malaya, Vietnam, Haiti, Cuba, Sierra Leone, Liberia and other trouble spots, where he observed the struggles of victims and victors with a compassionate and truthful eye. The volume includes a vast number of unpublished letters to authors Evelyn Waugh, Auberon Waugh, Anthony Powell, Edith Sitwell, R.K. Narayan and Muriel Spark, and to other more notorious individuals such as the double-agent Kim Philby. Some of these letters dispute previous assessments of his character, such as his alleged anti-Semitism or obscenity, and he emerges as a man of deep integrity, decency and courage. Others reveal the agonies of his romantic life, especially his relations with his wife, Vivien Greene, and with one of his mistresses, Catherine Walston. The letters can be poignant, despairing, amorous, furious or amusing, but the sheer range of experience contained in them will astound everyone who reads this book. About the Author: Richard Greene is a professor of English at the University of Toronto and the editor of the highly acclaimed Selected Letters of Edith Sitwell. He is also writing a biography of Sitwell. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.…

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Titre
Graham Greene: A Life in Letters
Éditeur
Knopf Canada
Année de publication
2007
État de l'article
Fine
Reliure
Hardcover
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0676979742
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780676979749
Édition
1st Edition

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