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October 01, 2004
Centenarian Greene
Today would be the 100th birthday of Graham Greene - one of my favouritest writers ever!
And thanks to one of my favouritest newspapers to remind me and shed light on the many different Graham Greenes and a quick tribute to his works.
If you want a novelist who can dramatise with great momentum and disillusion a time of empires and ideologies, if you want someone who can see into the heart of American foreign policy with great coldness and disdain, then the author of The Quiet American is your man. But he was, at the same time, a Catholic novelist of the more-Pascalian-than-thou variety, who dramatised the complexities of the thorny path to salvation with a convert's obsessiveness.
Posted by lainey at October 1, 2004 11:41 PM