Graham Greene
Graham Greene CH | |
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Born | Henry Graham Greene 2 October 1904 Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England |
Died | 3 April 1991 Vevey, Switzerland | (aged 86)
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Alma mater | Balliol College, Oxford |
Period | 1925–1991 |
Genre | |
Notable works | (1955) |
Spouse |
Vivien Dayrell-Browning (m. 1927; sep. 1947) |
Partner | Catherine Walston, Lady Walston (1946–1966) Yvonne Cloetta (1966–1991) |
Children | 2 |
Relatives | Raymond Greene (brother); Graham C. Greene (nephew) |
Henry Graham Greene
Combining literary acclaim with widespread popularity, Greene acquired a reputation early in his lifetime as a major writer, both of serious Catholic novels, and of thrillers (or "entertainments" as he termed them). He was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in Literature several times.[3][4][5] Through 67 years of writing, which included over 25 novels, he explored the conflicting moral and political issues of the modern world. He was awarded the 1968 Shakespeare Prize and the 1981 Jerusalem Prize.
He converted to
Early years (1904–1922)
Henry Graham Greene was born in 1904 in St John's House, a boarding house of Berkhamsted School, Hertfordshire, where his father was house master.[10] He was the fourth of six children; his younger brother, Hugh, became Director-General of the BBC,[11] and his elder brother, Raymond, an eminent physician and mountaineer.[12]
His parents, Charles Henry Greene and Marion Raymond Greene, were
In his childhood, Greene spent his summers with his uncle, Sir Graham Greene, at Harston House in Cambridgeshire. In Greene's description of his childhood, he describes his learning to read there: "It was at Harston I found quite suddenly I could read—the book was Dixon Brett, Detective. I didn't want anyone to know of my discovery, so I read only in secret, in a remote attic, but my mother must have spotted what I was at all the same, for she gave me Ballantyne's The Coral Island for the train journey home—always an interminable journey with the long wait between trains at Bletchley..."
In 1910, Charles Greene succeeded Dr Fry as headmaster of Berkhamsted. Graham also attended the school as a boarder. Bullied and profoundly depressed, he made several suicide attempts, including, as he wrote in his autobiography, by Russian roulette and by taking aspirin before going swimming in the school pool. In 1920, aged 16, in what was a radical step for the time, he was sent for psychoanalysis for six months in London, afterwards returning to school as a day student.[14] School friends included Claud Cockburn the journalist, and Peter Quennell the historian.
Greene contributed several stories to the school magazine, one of which was published by a London evening newspaper in January 1921.
Oxford University
He attended Balliol College, Oxford, to study history. During 1922 Greene was for a short time a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, and sought an invitation to the new Soviet Union, of which nothing came.[15] In 1925, while he was an undergraduate at Balliol, his first work, a poorly received volume of poetry titled Babbling April, was published.[15]
Greene had periodic bouts of depression while at Oxford, and largely kept to himself.[11] Of Greene's time at Oxford, his contemporary Evelyn Waugh noted that: "Graham Greene looked down on us (and perhaps all undergraduates) as childish and ostentatious. He certainly shared in none of our revelry."[11] He graduated in 1925 with a second-class degree in history.[15]
Writing career
After leaving Oxford, Greene worked as a private tutor and then turned to journalism; first on the Nottingham Journal,[16] and then as a sub-editor on The Times.[11] While he was working in Nottingham, he started corresponding with Vivien Dayrell-Browning, who had written to him to correct him on a point of Catholic doctrine. Greene was an agnostic, but when he later began to think about marrying Vivien, it occurred to him that, as he puts it in A Sort of Life, he "ought at least to learn the nature and limits of the beliefs she held". Greene was baptised on 26 February 1926 and they married on 15 October 1927 at St Mary's Church, Hampstead, London.
He published his first novel, The Man Within, in 1929; its favourable reception enabled him to work full-time as a novelist.[11] Greene originally divided his fiction into two genres (which he described as "entertainments" and "novels"): thrillers—often with notable philosophic edges—such as The Ministry of Fear; and literary works—on which he thought his literary reputation would rest—such as The Power and the Glory.
The next two books, The Name of Action (1930) and Rumour at Nightfall (1932), were unsuccessful;[11] and he later disowned them.[12] His first true success was Stamboul Train (1932) which was taken on by the Book Society and adapted as the film Orient Express, in 1934.
Although Greene objected strongly to being described as a
He supplemented his novelist's income with freelance journalism, book and film reviews for The Spectator, and co-editing the magazine Night and Day. Greene's 1937 film review[18] of Wee Willie Winkie, for Night and Day—which said that the nine-year-old star, Shirley Temple, displayed "a dubious coquetry" which appealed to "middle-aged men and clergymen"—provoked Twentieth Century Fox successfully to sue for £3,500 plus costs,[19][20] and Greene left the UK to live in Mexico until after the trial was over.[21][22] While in Mexico, Greene developed the ideas for the novel often considered his masterpiece, The Power and the Glory.[21]
By the 1950s, Greene had become known as one of the finest writers of his generation.[23][24]
As his career lengthened, both Greene and his readers found the distinction between his 'entertainments' and novels increasingly problematic. The last book Greene termed an entertainment was Our Man in Havana in 1958.
Greene also wrote short stories and plays, which were well received, although he was always first and foremost a novelist. His first play, The Living Room, debuted in 1953.[25]
Michael Korda, a lifelong friend and later his editor at Simon & Schuster, observed Greene at work: Greene wrote in a small black leather notebook with a black fountain pen and would write approximately 500 words. Korda described this as Graham's daily penance—once he finished he put the notebook away for the rest of the day.[26][27]
His writing influences included Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, Henry James, H. Rider Haggard, Robert Louis Stevenson, Marcel Proust, John Buchan, and Charles Péguy.[28][29][30]
Travel and espionage
Throughout his life, Greene travelled to what he called the world's wild and remote places. In 1941, the travels led to his being recruited into
Greene first left Europe at 30 years of age in 1935 on a trip to
Greene travelled to
In 1957, just months after Fidel Castro began his final revolutionary assault on the Batista regime in Cuba, Greene played a small role in helping the revolutionaries, as a secret courier transporting warm clothing for Castro's rebels hiding in the hills during the Cuban winter.[46] Greene was said[by whom?] to have a fascination with strong leaders, which may have accounted for his interest in Castro, whom he later met. After one visit Castro gave Greene a painting he had done, which hung in the living room of the French house where the author spent the last years of his life.[46] Greene did later voice doubts about Castro, telling a French interviewer in 1983, "I admire him for his courage and his efficiency, but I question his authoritarianism," adding: "All successful revolutions, however idealistic, probably betray themselves in time."[46]
Publishing career
Between 1944 and 1948, Greene was director at Eyre & Spottiswoode under chairman Douglas Jerrold, in charge of developing its fiction list.[47] Greene created The Century Library series, which was discontinued after he left following a conflict with Jerrold regarding Anthony Powell's contract. In 1958, Greene was offered the position of chairman by Oliver Crosthwaite-Eyre, but declined.[48]
He was a director at The Bodley Head from 1957 to 1968 under Max Reinhardt.[49]
Personal life
Greene was an agnostic, but was baptised into the Catholic faith in 1926 after meeting his future wife Vivien Dayrell-Browning.[6] They were married on 15 October 1927 at St Mary's Church, Hampstead, north London.[11] The Greenes had two children, Lucy Caroline (born 1933) and Francis (born 1936).[11]
In his discussions with Father Trollope, the priest to whom he went for instruction in Catholicism, Greene argued with the cleric "on the ground of dogmatic atheism", as Greene's primary difficulty with religion was what he termed the "if" surrounding God's existence. He found, however, that "after a few weeks of serious argument the 'if' was becoming less and less improbable",[50] and Greene converted and was baptised after vigorous arguments initially with the priest in which he defended atheism, or at least the "if" of agnosticism.[51] Late in life, Greene called himself a "Catholic agnostic".[7]
Beginning in 1946, Greene had an affair with
Greene lived with manic depression (bipolar disorder).[55][56] He had a history of depression, which had a profound effect on his writing and personal life.[57] In a letter to his wife, Vivien, he told her that he had "a character profoundly antagonistic to ordinary domestic life," and that "unfortunately, the disease is also one's material".[58] William Golding praised Greene as "the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man's consciousness and anxiety".[59]
Final years
Greene left Britain in 1966, moving to Antibes,[60] to be close to Yvonne Cloetta, whom he had known since 1959, a relationship that endured until his death.[61][11] In 1973, he had an uncredited cameo appearance as an insurance company representative in François Truffaut's film Day for Night.[62] In 1981, Greene was awarded the Jerusalem Prize, awarded to writers concerned with the freedom of the individual in society.
He lived the last years of his life in Vevey, on Lake Geneva in Switzerland, the same town Charlie Chaplin was living in at this time. He visited Chaplin often, and the two were good friends.[9] His book Doctor Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb Party (1980) is based on themes of combined philosophical and geographical influences. He ceased going to mass and confession in the 1950s, but in his final years began to receive the sacraments again from Father Leopoldo Durán, a Spanish priest, who became a friend.
In one of his final works, a pamphlet titled J'Accuse: The Dark Side of Nice (1982), Greene wrote of a legal matter that embroiled him and his extended family in
In 1984, in celebration of his 80th birthday, the
In 1986, Greene was awarded Britain's
Writing style and themes
Greene originally divided his fiction into two genres:
As his career lengthened, both Greene and his readers found the distinction between "entertainments" and "novels" to be less evident. The last book Greene termed an entertainment was Our Man in Havana in 1958. When Travels with My Aunt was published eleven years later, many reviewers noted that Greene had designated it a novel, even though, as a work decidedly comic in tone, it appeared closer to his last two entertainments, Loser Takes All and Our Man in Havana, than to any of the novels. Greene, they speculated, seemed to have dropped the category of entertainment. This was soon confirmed. In the Collected Edition of Greene's works published in 22 volumes between 1970 and 1982, the distinction between novels and entertainments is no longer maintained. All are novels.
Greene was one of the more "cinematic" of twentieth-century writers; most of his novels and many of his plays and short stories have been
In 2009, The Strand Magazine began to publish in serial form a newly discovered Greene novel titled The Empty Chair. The manuscript was written in longhand when Greene was 22 and newly converted to Catholicism.
Greene's literary style was described by Evelyn Waugh in
A stranger with no shortage of calling cards: devout Catholic, lifelong adulterer, pulpy hack, canonical novelist; self-destructive, meticulously disciplined, deliriously romantic, bitterly cynical; moral relativist, strict theologian, salon communist, closet monarchist; civilized to a stuffy fault and louche to drugged-out distraction, anti-imperialist crusader and postcolonial parasite, self-excoriating and self-aggrandizing, to name just a few.
The Nation, describing the many facets of Graham Greene[72]
The novels often portray the dramatic struggles of the individual soul from a Catholic perspective. Greene was criticised for certain tendencies in an unorthodox direction—in the world, sin is omnipresent to the degree that the vigilant struggle to avoid sinful conduct is doomed to failure, hence not central to holiness. His friend and fellow Catholic
Catholicism's prominence decreased in his later writings. The supernatural realities that haunted the earlier work declined and were replaced by a humanistic perspective, a change reflected in his public criticism of orthodox Catholic teaching.
In his later years, Greene was a strong critic of American imperialism and sympathised with the Cuban leader Fidel Castro, whom he had met.[73] Years before the Vietnam War, he prophetically attacked the idealistic but arrogant beliefs of The Quiet American, whose certainty in his own virtue kept him from seeing the disaster he inflicted on the Vietnamese.[74] In Ways of Escape, reflecting on his Mexican trip, he complained that Mexico's government was insufficiently left-wing compared with Cuba's.[75] In Greene's opinion, "Conservatism and Catholicism should be ... impossible bedfellows".[75]
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
— Graham Greene
In April 1949, when the New Statesman held a contest for parodies of Greene's writing style, he submitted three entries under the names "M. Wilkinson", “N. Wilkinson" and "D.R. Cook". As "M. Wilkinson", he shared the prize (one guinea) with four other authors. He later wrote to the magazine revealing his identity and expressing regret that his other two entries had not won, "because prize money in these days is free of Income Tax." Greene's entry comprised the first two paragraphs of a novel, apparently set in Italy, The Stranger's Hand: An Entertainment. Greene's friend Mario Soldati, a Piedmontese novelist and film director, believed it had the makings of a suspense film about Yugoslav spies in postwar Venice. Upon Soldati's prompting, Greene continued writing the story as the basis for a film script. Apparently he lost interest in the project, leaving it as a substantial fragment that was published posthumously in The Graham Greene Film Reader (1993) and No Man's Land (2005). A script for The Stranger's Hand was written by Guy Elmes on the basis of Greene's unfinished story, and filmed by Soldati in 1954. In 1965, Greene again entered a similar New Statesman competition pseudonymously, and won an honourable mention.
Legacy
Greene is regarded as a major 20th-century novelist,[1][2] and was praised by John Irving, prior to Greene's death, as "the most accomplished living novelist in the English language".[76] Novelist Frederick Buechner called Greene's novel The Power and the Glory a "tremendous influence".[77] By 1943, Greene had acquired the reputation of being the "leading English male novelist of his generation",[78] and at the time of his death in 1991 had a reputation as a writer of both deeply serious novels on the theme of Catholicism,[79] and of "suspense-filled stories of detection".[80]
Acclaimed during his lifetime, Greene was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in Literature several times.[5] In 1961[3] and 1966[4] he was among the final three candidates for the prize. In 1967, Greene was again among the final three choices, according to Nobel records unsealed on the 50th anniversary in 2017. The committee also considered Jorge Luis Borges and Miguel Ángel Asturias, with the latter the chosen winner.[81][82][83] Greene remained a favourite to win the Nobel prize in the 1980s, but it was known that two influential members of the Swedish Academy, Artur Lundkvist and Lars Gyllensten, opposed the prize for Greene and he was never awarded.[84]
Greene collected several literary awards for his novels, including the 1941 Hawthornden Prize for The Power and the Glory[85][12] and the 1948 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Heart of the Matter.[86][87] As an author, he received the 1968 Shakespeare Prize[88] and the 1981 Jerusalem Prize, a biennial literary award given to writers whose works have dealt with themes of human freedom in society. In 1986, he was awarded Britain's Order of Merit.[12]
The Graham Greene International Festival is an annual four-day event of conference papers, informal talks, question and answer sessions, films, dramatised readings, music, creative writing workshops and social events. It is organised by the Graham Greene Birthplace Trust, and takes place in the writer's home town of Berkhamsted (about 35 miles northwest of London), on dates as close as possible to the anniversary of his birth (2 October). Its purpose is to promote interest in and study of the works of Graham Greene.[89][90]
He is the subject of the 2013 documentary film, Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene.[91]
His short story "The Destructors" was featured in the 2001 film Donnie Darko.[92]
Select works
- The Man Within (debut —1929)
- Stamboul Train (1932) (also published as Orient Express in the US)
- It's a Battlefield (1934)
- England Made Me (also published as The Shipwrecked) (1935)
- A Gun for Sale (1936)
- Journey Without Maps (1936)
- Brighton Rock (1938)
- The Lawless Roads (1939) (also published as Another Mexico in the US)
- The Confidential Agent (1939)
- The Power and the Glory (1940)
- The Ministry of Fear (1943)
- The Heart of the Matter (1948)
- The Third Man (1949) (novella written as a preliminary to Greene's screenplay for the film The Third Man)
- The End of the Affair (1951)
- Twenty-One Stories (1954) (short stories)
- Loser Takes All (1955)
- The Quiet American (1955)
- The Potting Shed (1956)
- Our Man in Havana (1958)
- A Burnt-Out Case (1960)
- In Search of a Character: Two African Journals (1961)
- The Comedians (1966)
- Travels with My Aunt (1969)
- A Sort of Life (1971)
- The Honorary Consul (1973)
- The Human Factor (1978)
- Ways of Escape (1980)
- Doctor Fischer of Geneva (1980)
- Monsignor Quixote (1982)
- Getting to Know the General: The Story of an Involvement (1984)
- The Tenth Man (1985)
- The Last Word (1990) (short stories)
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Works cited
- Bosco, Mark, 2005. Graham Greene's Catholic Imagination. Oxford University Press.
- Diederich, Bernard, 2012. Seeds of Fiction: Graham Greene's Adventures in Haiti and Central America 1954–1983. Peter Owen
- Diemert, Brian, 1996. Graham Greene's Thrillers and the 1930s. McGill-Queen's Press
- Donaghy, Henry J., 1983. Graham Greene, an Introduction to His Writings. Rodopi
- Feldman, Burton, 2001.The Nobel Prize: A History of Genius, Controversy, and Prestige. Arcade Publishing
- Kohn, Lynette, 1961. Graham Greene: The Major Novels. Stanford University Press
- Iyer, Pico, 2012. The Man within My Head: Graham Greene, My Father and Me. Bloomsbury.
- Schwartz, Adam, 2005. The Third Spring: G.K. Chesterton, Graham Greene, Christopher Dawson, and David Jones. CUA Press
- Steensma, Robert C., 1997, Encyclopedia of the Essay. Taylor & Francis
- Theroux, Paul, 2004. Introduction to The Comedians. Random House
- Vickers, Graham, 2008. Chasing Lolita: How Popular Culture Corrupted Nabokov's Little Girl All Over Again. Chicago Review Press
Further reading
- Graham Greene Studies (journal),
- Allain, Marie-Françoise, 1983. The Other Man: Conversations with Graham Greene. Bodley Head.
- Bergonzi, Bernard, 2006. A Study in Greene: Graham Greene and the Art of the Novel. Oxford University Press.
- Cloetta, Yvonne, 2004. In Search of a Beginning: My Life with Graham Greene, translated by Euan Cameron. Bloomsbury.
- Fallowell, Duncan, 20th Century Characters, Loaded: Graham Greene at home in Antibes (London, Vintage Books, 1994)
- Greene, Richard, editor, 2007. Graham Greene: A Life in Letters. Knopf Canada.
- Hazzard, Shirley, 2000. Greene on Capri. Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
- Henríquez Jiménez, Santiago J. La realidad y la construcción de la ficción en la novelística de Graham Greene, La Laguna: Universidad, 1992.
- Henríquez Jiménez, Santiago J. "Graham Greene's novels seen in the Light of His Religious Discourse" en Wm. Thomas Hill (ed.). Perceptions of Religious Faith in the Work of Graham Greene. Oxford, New York...: Peter Lang. 2002. 657–685.
- Henríquez Jiménez, Santiago J. "Don Quijote de la Mancha y Monsignor Quixote: la inspiración castellana de Grahan Greene en el clásico español de Cervantes" en José Manuel Barrio Marco y María José Crespo Allué (eds.). La huella de Cervantes y del Quijote en la cultura anglosajona. Centro Buendía y Universidad de Valladolid. Valladolid. 2007. 311–318.
- Henríquez Jiménez, Santiago J. "Miguel de Unamuno y Graham Greene: coincidencias en torno a los cuidados de la fe" en Teresa Gibert Maceda y Laura Alba Juez (coord..). Estudios de Filología Inglesa. Homenaje a la Dra. Asunción Alba Pelayo. Madrid: UNED. 2008. 421–430.
- Hull, Christopher. Our Man Down in Havana: The Story Behind Graham Greene's Cold War Spy Novel (Pegasus Books, 2019) online review
- Phillips, Gene D., 1974. Graham Greene: Films of His Fiction, Teachers' College Press.
- O'Prey, Paul, 1988. A Reader's Guide to Graham Greene. Thames and Hudson.
- Shelden, Michael, 1994. Graham Greene: The Enemy Within. William Heinemann. Random House ed., 1995, ISBN 0-679-42883-6
- ISBN 0-14-200420-0
- ISBN 0-14-200421-9
- ISBN 0-670-03142-9
- Simon Raven & Martin Shuttleworth "Graham Greene Interviewed, The Art of Fiction No. 3". The Paris Review. Autumn 1953 (3). Autumn 1953.
- West, William John (1998). The quest for Graham Greene (1st US ed.). New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-0-312-18161-1.
- Bernhard Valentinitsch,Graham Greenes Roman 'The Human Factor'(1978) und Otto Premingers gleichnamige Verfilmung (1979). In:JIPSS (= Journal for Intelligence,Propaganda and Security),Nr.14.Graz 2021,p. 34-56.
External links
- Graham Greene at IMDb
- Graham Greene at Curlie
- Works by or about Graham Greene at Internet Archive
- Works by Graham Greene at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Graham Greene Papers at the Harry Ransom Center
- Graham Greene Papers Archived 5 December 2022 at the Wayback Machine at John J. Burns Library, Boston College
- Graham Greene Collection at Emory University
- Graham Greene Letters at Columbia University
- Bryan Forbes Collection of Graham Greene Archived 20 September 2022 at the Wayback Machine at the British Library
- The Cherry Record Collection of Josephine Reid's Papers and Books Relating to Graham Greene at Balliol CollegeArchives & Manuscripts