Graham Greene: A Collection of Critical EssaysSamuel Hynes, Samuel Lynn Hynes Prentice-Hall, 1973 - 183 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 28
Page 35
... Evil . And it is the evil that material- izes out of vice , crime , nightmare , and moral stupefaction in Greene's books that brings him into a notable company . The same evil is made to work behind the dramatic mystery and psychic ...
... Evil . And it is the evil that material- izes out of vice , crime , nightmare , and moral stupefaction in Greene's books that brings him into a notable company . The same evil is made to work behind the dramatic mystery and psychic ...
Page 36
... evil or good ; so far as we do evil or good , we are human ; and it is better , in a paradoxical way , to do evil than to do nothing : at least , we exist . It is true to say that the glory of man is his capacity for salvation ; it is ...
... evil or good ; so far as we do evil or good , we are human ; and it is better , in a paradoxical way , to do evil than to do nothing : at least , we exist . It is true to say that the glory of man is his capacity for salvation ; it is ...
Page 54
... Evil is fertile and is always heard from again ; every move Pinkie makes - from the killing of Hale , through the further necessitated murders and the detested courtship and marriage , to the climax in which , like Oedipus , he blinds ...
... Evil is fertile and is always heard from again ; every move Pinkie makes - from the killing of Hale , through the further necessitated murders and the detested courtship and marriage , to the climax in which , like Oedipus , he blinds ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The End of the Affair | 11 |
The Earlier Novels | 17 |
Copyright | |
9 other sections not shown
Common terms and phrases
action Affair Anthony artistic become believe Bendrix betrayed Brighton Rock Catholic child childhood Christ Christian comic Complaisant Lover corrupt criminal critic damnation damned death drama emotions English entertainments essay Evelyn Waugh evil experience faith fear feel fiction film finally François Mauriac gives Glory God's grace Graham Greene Greene's novels Gun for Sale Heart Hell hero human Ida Arnold imagination INTERVIEWERS It's a Battlefield Judas kind lieutenant literary living London Major Scobie Matter Mauriac meaning melodramatic mind Ministry of Fear modern moral murder mystery narrative nature never novelist once passage perhaps Pinkie Brown Pinkie's pity play plot police Power present priest Querry Quiet American R. W. B. Lewis reader religious sense Reprinted by permission saint Sarah scene Scobie's seems simply society spiritual story suffering suicide supernatural Tench theme theological thing thriller tion tragedy tragic turn violence W. H. Auden writing