Synopses & Reviews
This volume explores Graham Greene's literary career. Among other things, it explores his motives for writing; the literary and cinematic influences that shaped his work; his writing routine and the importance of his childhood experience. Greene was elusive, enigmatic and this book teases out the fiction from his autobiographies, the autobiography from his fictions, sharing Paul Theroux's view that you may not know Greene from his face or speech "but from his writing, you know everything".
Synopsis
A new title in Palgrave Macmillan's Literary Lives series, this is a biographical narrative of Graham Greene's literary career. Among other things, it explores his motives for writing; the literary and cinematic influences that shaped his work; his writing routine and the importance of his childhood experience. Greene was elusive and enigmatic, and this book teases out the fiction from his autobiographies, the autobiography from his fictions, sharing Paul Theroux's view that you may not know Greene from his face or speech 'but from his writing, you know everything.'
About the Author
Neil Sinyard is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Hull.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements * The Greene Chronology: Some Major Dates and Events * Introduction: Secret Sharer * Why Do I Write? * The Books in My Life * The Greene Routine * Greene on the Screen * Laughter in the Shadow of the Gallows * A Sort of Autobiography: Epigraphs and Dedications * The Green Baize Door * Poets of Criminality and Conscience * Conclusion: Forgotten Memories * Select Bibliography * Annotated Filmography * Index
Acknowledgements * The Greene Chronology: Some Major Dates and Events * Introduction: Secret Sharer * Why Do I Write? * The Books in My Life * The Greene Routine * Greene on the Screen * Laughter in the Shadow of the Gallows * A Sort of Autobiography: Epigraphs and Dedications * The Green Baize Door * Poets of Criminality and Conscience * Conclusion: Forgotten Memories * Select Bibliography * Annotated Filmography * Index