scholarly journals El papel del espía y la maleabilidad de la trama en Our Man in Havana, de Graham Greene

Author(s):  
Blanca Aidé Herrmann
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Tanto la novela Our Man in Havana (1958), de Graham Greene, como sus adaptaciones (cinematográfica en 1959, dirigida por Carol Reed; y teatral en 2009, escrita por Clive Francis) utilizan la sátira como medio para hacer una burla de la trama convencional de espías. El análisis de estas tres obras hará un estudio de la representación de la figura del espía en la novela y cómo el protagonista, Jim Wormold, es un móvil que enfatiza el aspecto histórico de La Habana en cuanto a la adaptación cinematográfica. El análisis de la representación teatral con respecto al protagonista y el espacio en el que se mueve expondrá qué cambios ocurren al nivel de la trama al suprimir aspectos importantes del contexto histórico. Así, se demostrará cómo las dos primeras obras exhiben, de forma remarcada, instancias diferentes que toman la sátira como base para hacer un comentario sobre los defectos de la sociedad inglesa en cuanto al espionaje y sobre cómo lo percibía la periferia. La tercera, aunque circunscrita en el mismo ambiente de la Guerra Fría, deliberadamente diluye el contexto para presentar una trama rápida que se acerca más a la farsa.

2020 ◽  
pp. 109-115
Author(s):  
Anna Sharova

Anna Sharova reviews two recent books separately published by two English language authors – P. Martell and J. Young. The books are very different in style and mood. While P. Martell presents an excellent example of British journalist prose in the style of his elder compatriots Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene, who did their reporting and writing from exotic countries during fateful periods of history, J. Young offers a more academic, though no less ‘on the spot’ analysis of the situation in the youngest independent country of Africa. J. Young’s considers two possible approaches to conflict resolution as possible outcomes: non-intervention cum continuation of the war, or the introduction of international governance. P. Martell comes up with a disappointing prediction about the future of South Sudan. The war will go on, the famine will return, and the threat of genocide will not disappear. People will continue to flee the country, and refugee camps will grow. New warring groups will appear, new murders will be committed. Neighbouring states will not stop competing for influence and resources. New peacekeepers will arrive. Warlords will be accused of crimes, but, as before, they will escape punishment, while some will be promoted.


Author(s):  
Allan Hepburn

Miracles rarely appear in novels, yet Graham Greene includes several of them in The End of the Affair. Sarah Miles heals a boy suffering from appendicitis and a man with a disfigured cheek. Like a saint, she seems to heal or revive through her compassionate touch, as when she raises her lover, who may or may not have died in a bomb blast, by touching his hand. This chapter locates Sarah’s interventions amidst debates about miracles, beginning with David Hume’s sceptical rejection of inexplicable phenomena, through such mid-century books as C. S. Lewis’s Miracles and Dorothy Sayers’ The Mind of the Maker. The inherent godlessness of novels, as Georg Lukacs puts the matter in Theory of the Novel, would seem to ban mystical content altogether from novelistic discourse. Yet this chapter argues for the revaluation of mystical content—the ordeals of the whisky priest in The Power and the Glory, for example—within the generic precincts of the novel.


Theology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 124 (2) ◽  
pp. 84-92
Author(s):  
David Jasper

The priestly figure in Graham Greene’s fiction may or may not wear a clerical collar. But through such characters salvation may be glimpsed not only through faith but through doubt and human weakness. Saints and sinners are not far apart. Pascal’s ‘wager’ is also ever present in these novels that reflect the ambiguities of Greene’s conversion to Roman Catholicism.


1965 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 607
Author(s):  
David Lodge ◽  
A. A. DeVitis
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2010 ◽  
Vol 196 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-163
Author(s):  
Sean A. Spence

It is difficult, if not impossible, to systematically identify ten books that have been influential over a professional lifetime, not least since many have probably exerted their influence in long-forgotten ways: part of that semantic sediment laid down by protracted reading (and conversation). However, I do know that George Orwell was the first serious writer whom I read ‘of my own free will’ and I know that I would not wish to be without the works of Anthony Burgess, Albert Camus, Bruce Chatwin, Don DeLillo, Graham Greene, Henning Mankell or W.G. Sebald. I can remember that books on Buddhism sustained me through senior house officer jobs in a number of medical specialties (trying to focus, single-mindedly, on the task in hand rather than my tiredness or distraction), and I suspect that the metaphors of my thought and speech had already been much influenced by exposure to the Bible. Here, I focus on those books that have informed the way I think about psychiatry right now and how it might be practised.


1961 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
R. E. Hughes ◽  
Francis L. Kunkel ◽  
Graham Greene
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