Journée agrégation


Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory

Vendredi 26 octobre 2007, 13h à 18h

Paris IV Sorbonne

avec NEIL SINYARD

 

The papers presented during this conference as well as 8 extra papers were published by the academic journal CYCNOS of the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis in January 2008.

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All papers will be in English

13h Introduction : François Gallix, Vanessa Guignery (Paris IV-Sorbonne)

Greene on the screen : Film extracts

13h30 Guest speaker : Neil Sinyard (Hull) Power without Glory : Some thoughts on the character of the lieutenant in The Power and the Glory, with some reflections on Greene's characterisation of the police in his fiction.

14h30 Catherine Lanone (Toulouse II) "An inhabitant of both countries" : Division in The Power and the Glory

15h Jonathan Dickinson (Paris IV) "Thy Kingdom Gone?" : Crying in the Wilderness or Preaching on the Mount in The Power and the Glory

15h30 question time and pause

16h Christian Gutleben (Nice) Saints and Heroes in The Power and the Glory
16h30 Claire Larsonneur (Paris VIII) The Not so abject Bestiary in The Power and the Glory
17h Catherine Delmas (Grenoble III) Greene and Conrad : Immanence and Transcendence in The Power and the Glory

17h30 Question time

Cette journée d'étude sera organisée par le centre de recherche ERCLA avec le soutien de l’École Doctorale IV de Paris IV-Sorbonne.

Notre invité d'honneur est le Professeur NEIL SINYARD de l'Université de Hull.

Neil Sinyard is Professor in Film Studies at the University of Hull. He is the author of twenty books on film, including Filming Literature: The Art of Screen Adaptation (Croon Helm, 1986) which includes a comparison of Greene and Hitchcock. He has published over a hundred articles and has written extensively on the relationship between literature and film. He is the author of Graham Greene: A Literary Life (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).


Graham Greene: A Literary Life (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003)
'Life would be impossible for me if I knew that I would never write another book' (Graham Greene). This new study offers an unusual account of the literary life of one of the twentieth century's greatest novelists, revealing the kind of writer he became, and why. It considers his literary motivation, the books that influenced him, the routines he followed. It explores offbeat aspects that are often overlooked. Why does comedy emerge so strongly in the later works? In what way did his interest in the cinema help shape his writing style? What kind of coded autobiography is embedded in his teasing epigraphs and dedications? What clues to his later development are contained in his childhood? Greene was a master of selective disclosure, but he did allow his mask to occasionally slip, as if wanting confession. This book is a sympathetic and fascinating insight into the world of a remarkable author.

Contents
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

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Bibliographie. François Gallix, Paris IV. Concours 2008.

 fgallix@noos.fr

QUELQUES PISTES.

Charnières biographiques :

- The green baize door : porte séparant deux mondes dans l’école dont son père était le directeur, frontière entre l’univers familial du bien, avec ses parfums, ses fruits, ses livres et le monde hostile des salles de classe.

- A 14 ans, lecture de The Viper of Milan, de Marjorie Bowen : “Human nature is not black and white, but black and grey“ (The Lost Childhood and Other Essays).

- Roulette russe et psychanalyse à 17 ans.
- Sa conversion à 22 ans, choix délibéré de devenir minoritaire, donc attitude non réactionnaire.

La piste catholique :

Indispensable, mais à doser. Ne pas réduire à la seule dimension d’un roman catholique, mais ne pas gommer cet aspect essentiel.

Voir les déclarations de Greene : “a Roman Catholic writer of a kind”, “A novelist that happened to be a Catholic”. A la fin de sa vie : “A Catholic agnostic » (voir David Lodge).

Greene rappelant que The Power and the Glory (1940) avait été condamné par le Saint Office en 1953. (voir aussi ce qui reste du roman sans se centrer sur cette piste : le récit d’un homme prêt à sacrifier sa vie pour ses idées).

Greeneland :

 Greene haïssait ce terme qu’il a souvent commenté. Il introduit la notion de “seediness”, la ‘sordidité’, ce qui est minable, pourri comme les dents à soigner, la chaleur, l’humidité, les mauvaises odeurs, les vautours, le microcosme de la prison, des commissariats. Proche de l’ennui (voir Philip Larkin), l’alcool étant le combustible nécessaire pour le combattre.

L’Ecriture :

Celle d’un professionnel, style qui se cache sous une apparente facilité. Greene lisant ses textes à voix haute. Ecriture d’un journaliste-reporter-grand voyageur. Sens du gros-titre, du détail frappant. Influence du cinéma (a écrit quatre scénarios, dont celui du Troisième Homme), seize films ont été tirés de son œuvre). Ecriture cinématographique (voir Bergonzi et Plus Greene) : découpages en plans, en séquences, mouvements de caméra, flashbacks, prolepses.

Manipulation du réalisme (voir Conrad), tout est pipé, de biais, codé. Les objets faux-jetons : bout de papier manipulé par le ‘whisky priest’, son bréviaire enveloppé dans la couverture d’un roman porno.

Mélodrame, drame, fatum : tout semble joué dès la première page. Chasse à l’homme, western, poursuivant-poursuivi :  figure de Janus : deux faces de la même pièce (whisky priest-lieutenant, voir Marlow-Kurtz).

Influences : Eliot (“The Waste Land” et “The Hollow men” : voir le titre), et surtout Conrad, James.

The Power and the Glory : a morality play (voir Bergonzi)

‘My only novel with a thesis’.

Epistémologie : difficulté de connaître l’autre (voir Lord Jim)

Space : enclosement. The Frontier.

Movement (The Fugitive) and Stasis.

 

BIBLIOGRAPHIE

entre parenthèses : pages sur The Power and the Glory.

AL=American Library, 10 rue du Général Camou. 750007 Paris. 01 53 59 12 60. Métro : Alma Marceau, Ecole Militaire. alparis@noos.fr

bis : ne figurait pas dans la précédente bibliographie.

 

SOURCES PRIMAIRES

1 The Power and the Glory. (1940). Edition utilisée : Vintage, 2005, 220p. introduction de John Updike, 1990 (IV-XII).

New York, Viking, 1940. sous le titre de The Labyrinthine Ways.

Voir aussi The Library edition of the works of Graham Greene. Heinemann,  1940, 288p.

2 Traduction : La Puissance et la Gloire, Préface de François Mauriac (5-9), traduction de Marcelle Sibon. Le Livre de Poche (319p.).

3 **Brighton Rock (1938. Penguin Classics, 2004, introduction de J.M. Coetzee, (VII-XIV.)

Autobiographies :

4 ***A Sort of Life. Penguin, 1971, 157p.

5 ***Ways of Escape. Penguin, 1981 237p. ch. 3 (63-72) : passages sur The Lawless Roads et The Power and the Glory.

Essais :

6 **The Lost Childhood, and other essays(1951), Penguin, 1962, 224p The Viper of Milan (1906), de Marjorie Bowen : “human nature is not black and white, but black and grey“

Voyages :

7 ***Journey without maps. (1936) Penguin, 1971, 250p.

8 ***The Lawless Roads. (1939). Heinemann, 1939, 289p. Vintage Classics, 2002, 224p. *** compagnon obligatoire. Voyage à travers le Mexique. Voir ***Sherry I, ch.41.

8 bis ** Greene, Graham. in The Heritage of British Literature. Elizabeth Bowen, Anthony Burgess, Graham Greene, Kate O’Brien. Thames and Hudson1983. Greene : Dramatists (67-109). Histoire littéraire du théâtre, depuis les Miracle Platys et les Moralities jusqu’à Noël Coward. Très riche d’enseignement sur les morality plays.

Quelques articles critiques sur The Power and the Glory : TLS, 9 March, 1940..

9 New York Times, 17 March, 1939.

10 DeVitis, A.A. “Notes on The Power and the Glory“. The Annotator, n°5, May 1977(7-10).

11 ** Mauriac, François. “La Puissance et la Gloire“. Le Figaro Littéraire, 30 Oct. 1948.

12 Parc, Robert du. “Saint ou Maudit. Le Prêtre dans La Puissance et la Gloire. Etudes, n°260, March 1949 (366-81).

 

SOURCES SECONDAIRES

Toutes les introductions Vintage, centenaire de sa naissance en 2004.

The Power and the Glory. John Updike.

The Confidential Agent. Ian Rankin

The Comedians. Paul Theroux

The End of the Affair. Monica Ali

A Gun for Sale.. Robert Macfarlane

The Quiet American. Zadie Smith

No Man’s Land. Hesperus, Foreword by David Lodge.

Brighton Rock. Penguin Classics. J.M. Coetzee.

Biographies

13 Article sur les biographies : TLS, 30 Sept. 1994.

14 Duran, Leopoldo. Friend and Brother (traduit de l’espagnol). Harper-Collins, 352p.

14 bis ***Shelden, Michael. The Man Within. London : Heinemann, 1994, 537p. (263-73).

14 c ** Mockler, Antony. Three Lives. Hunter Mackay, 1994 , 237p Novelist, Explorer, Spy. ch. XV Alone in Hateful Mexico (139-148), ch. XVI Evelyn’s Influence ‘149-155).

15 ***Sherry, Norman. The Life of Graham Greene. AL

16 ***Vol. 1 : 1904-1939. London : Cape, 1989, 783p. (701-713 sur The Power and the Glory et 677-700 sur The Lawless Roads). Penguin, 2004.

17 **Vol. II : 1939-1955, 1994, 562p. Penguin 2004.

18 *Vol. III : 1955-1911, 1995.. 906p. Penguin, 2005.

19 West, W.J. The Quest for Graham Greene. Phenix Press, 1998.

Ouvrages comportant des chapitres ou passages sur The Power and the Glory.

20 *Adamson, Judith. The Dangerous Edge. When Art and Politics Meet. Macmillan, 1990. 216p. (ch.2 Greene’s Mexico, 43-69). AL.

21 ***Allain, Marie-Françoise. L’Autre et son double—Entretien avec Marie-Françoise Allain. Belfond, &98&, 225p. The Other Man—Conversations with Graham Greene. The Bodley Head, 1983, 187p.  De bonnes questions et de bonnes réponses sur l’écriture de Greene.

22 **Allott, Kenneth, Miriam Farris.. The Art of Graham Greene. New York : Russell and Russell, 1963, 252p. “The Universe of Pity “(173-193).

23 *Atkins, John. Graham Greene. London : Calder and Boyars, 1957, 275p.ch.X “The Right to suffer“ ? (119-127), AL

24 ***Bergonzi, Bernard. A Study in Greene—Graham Greene and the Art of the Novel. OUP, 2006. 201p. ; ch. V Mexico (103-116, VI 6 A Catholic Novelist ? (117-141). AL  (voir compte rendu dans Cercles en fin de bibliographie).

24 bis ** Biswell, Andrew. The Real Life of Anthony Burgess. Picador, 2005. 434p. (379-384). 

25 Bloom, Harold ed. Graham Greene. Modern Critical Views. New York : Chelsea House Publishers, 1987.

26 *Boardman, Gwen R. The Aesthetics of Exploration. University of Florida Press, 1971, 216p. ch.X “The Right to suffer“ (62-77). AL

27 Cassis, A.F. Graham Greene—A Man of Paradox : A collection of interviews and impressions by friends and contemporaries. Chicago : Loyola University Press, 1994, 500p.

*28 Conto, Maria. Graham Greene : On the Frontier—Politics and Religion in the Novels. Macmillan, 1988, 249p. chap. 3 “The religious sense“ (62-75).

29 Devereux, James. “Catholic Matters in the Correspondence between Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene“. Journal of Modern Literature. 14 :1, 1987 (11-26).

29 bis ** Cloetta, Yvonne. In Search of a beginning. My Life with Graham Greene, as told to Marie-Françoise Allain, translated from the French. Bloomsbury, 2004 (207p.)

30 Diemert, Brian. Graham Greene’s Thrillers and the thirties. McGill-Queen’s University Press

31 Donnaghy, Henry J. Conversations with Graham Greene. University Press of Mississippi, 1992, 182p.

32 Duran, Leopoldo Estudio sobre ‘El Poder y la Gloria’ (Study of The Power and the Glory, by Graham Greene. Barcelona : Luis de Caralt, 1981

33 Duran, Leopoldo. An Intimate Portrait by his Closest Friend and Confidant, translated by Euan Camera. HarperSanfrancisco, 1994, 352p. AL

34 ***Erlebach, Peter, Thomas Michael eds. Graham Greene in Perpective. Frankfurt : Peter Lang, 1991. Colloque à l’université de Mainz, nov. 1990. (Peter Erlebach : Major Themes and Structural Ways of Arguing Graham Greene’s Novels in the 1940s and 1950s, 17-20 ; Piroëlle Anne (Dijon). “Graham Greene : Fiction and Film“ (73-90) AL.

35 **Evans, O. ed. Graham Greene—Some Critical Considerations. Lexington : University of Kentucky Press, 1967, 286p. introduction, V-XV. ***Excellente bibliographie de Neil Brennan (245-276).

36 ** Falk, Quentin. Travels in Greeneland : the Cinema of Graham Greene. Quartet, 1984. AL

37 Faulkner, Peter. Recent Religious Novelists : Waugh, Greene, Golding. Humanism in the English Novel. London : Elek/Pemberton, 1975 (156-178).

38 Gordon, Haim. Unsung Heroes in the Novels of Graham Greene. Westport (Connecticut) : Greenwood Press, 1997, 160p.“Political Wisdom : Power and Glory.“

39 Hawtree, Christopher ed. Graham Greene. Yours etc. Letters to the Press. 1945-89. Reinhardt, 1989, 269p.

40 ** Hill, William Thomas, ed. Perceptions of Religious faith in the work of Graham Greene. New York, Frankfort : Lang, 2002, Paperback (691p.) de nombreuses contributions, dont Bernard Bergonzi, George Orwell, V.S. Pritchett, Elizabeth Bowen.

41 ** Hoggart, Richard. “The Art of Caricature : Aspects of the Art of Graham Greene, with particular Reference to The Power and the Glory“. Essays in Criticism, III, Oct. 1953, 447-62.

42 **Hynes, Samuel, ed.. New Jersey, 1973. Graham Green : A Collection of Critical Essays. Twentieth Century Views. Englewood Cliffs. New York : Prentice Hall, 1973.

43 **Kulshrestha, J.P. Graham Greene. The Novelist. Delhi : Macmillan, 1977, 246p. (74-95).

44 Llewellyn Smith, Julia. Travelling on the Edge—Journeys in the footsteps of Graham Greene(GB : Travels without my aunt). St Martin’s Griffin. Penguin, 2003, 320p.(15-70).

***Lodge, David.

45 The Novelist at the Crossroads and other Essays, 1971 (87-119).

46 The Practice of Writing. Penguin, 1976, 340p. “The Lives of Graham Greene“( 40-84).

47 Graham Greene. Columbia Essays on Modern Literature, n°17, 1966. (chapitre réécrit de sa thèse non publiée).

48 The Art of Fiction. Penguin, 1992, 239p, “The Exotic“ (158-61).

.49 Consciouness and the Novel. Penguin, 2003, 320 p. (76-80)

50*** The Year of Henry James. The Story of a Novel, with other essays on the genesis, composition and reception of literary fiction. Part 2, ***Chapitre 4 “Graham Greene and the Anxiety of Influence (202-223).  Harvill Secker,, 2006. 332p.

51 **McEwan, Neil. Macmillan, 1988, 146p. Graham Greene. Macmillan Modern Novelists [“A Catholic Novelist“, 47-72. (58-67)].

52 **Mesnet, Marie-Béatrice. “Graham Greene and the heart of the matter“. London : The Cresset Press, 1954, 115p. “Tabasco, the Godless state (19-28), “The Power and the Glory“ (77-114). AL

53 Meyers, Jeffrey ed. Graham Greene—A Revaluation. Macmillan, 1990, 205p. 8 chapitres par différents auteurs, dont John Bayley, Eugene Goodheart, Jeffey Meyers, Roger Sharrock. Donald Greene. “Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh, Catholic Novelists“. (5-37).

53 bis Miyano, Shoko. Innocence in Graham Greene’s Novel. Peter Lang, 2006. 122p. “The whisky priest and Giggles” 71-85.

54 Mudford, Peter.Graham Greene. Writers and their Works. Transatlantic Publications. 1996.

55 * O’Prey, Paul. A Reader’s Guide to Graham Greene. Thames and Hudson ; 1988, 151p. (75-80). 5 pages denses sur le catholicisme.

56 Patten, Karl. “The Structure of The Power and the Glory“. Modern Fiction Studies, III Autumn 1957 (225-35).

57 Phillips, Gene D. Graham Greene : The films of his Fiction. New York and London : Teachers College Press, Columbia University, 1074.

58 Piroëlle Anne (Dijon). “Graham Greene : Fiction and Film“ in Erlebach, Peter, Thomas Michael eds. Graham Greene in Perpective. Frankfurt : Peter Lang, 1991 (73-90) AL.

59 **Pryce-Jones, David.Graham Greene. Writers and Critics. Edinburgh : Oliver and Boyd, 1963, 119p. (39-59).

60 Radell, Karen Marguerite. Affirmation in a Moral Wasteland : A Comparison of Ford Madox Ford and Graham Greene. American University Studies, Series IV. New York and Bern : Peter Lang, 1987.

61**Sharrock, Roger. Saints and Sinners—The Novels of Graham Greene. Burnes and Oats, University of Notre Dame Press, 1984, 298p. (101-129). Bibliographie (291-93).

62 ***Sinyard, Neil. Graham Greene—A Literary Life. Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, 168p.  Macmillan Literary Lives, paperback, 170p.

63 Spurling, John. Graham Greene. Contemporary Writers. Methuen ; 1983, 80p. “Catholic Novels“, 34-47)

64 Stratford, Philip. Faith and Fiction. Creative Process in Greene and Mauriac. University of Indiana, 1964., 275p. AL.

65 ***Watts, Cedric. A Preface to Greene. Longmann, 1997, 240p. paperback. Pearson Educational, 2003, 230p.

66 Wendorf, Thomas A. “Greene, Tolkien, and the Mysterious Relations of Realism and Fantasy“, in “Recent Critical Perspectives in Literature“. Renascence, vol. LV, n°1, Fall 2002 (79-100).

67 ***Whitehouse, J.C. “Graham Greene. The Power and the Glory. “ In Richard, Mary ed.. Encyclopedia of Catholic Literature. London : Greenwood Press, 2004, 400p. (299-306).

68 Woodcock, George.Mexico and the English Novelist“, Western Review, XXI, Autumn 1956 (21-32).

69 **Woodman, Thomas. Faithful FictionsThe Catholic Novel in British Literature. London : Open University Press, 1991.

Adaptations :

TV : The Power and the Glory (1961) réalisateur : Marc Daniels (US), 90’. Lawrence Olivier (whisky priest), Julie Harris, Martin Gabel (policier)

Cinéma. *The Fugitive, US/Mexique. (Dieu est mort) 1967. Réalisateur : John Ford, scénariste : Dudley Nichols avec Henry Fonda, Pedro Amandariz, Dolores del Rio. Existe en DVD, éditions Montparnasse, 99’.

ARTICLES

70 The New Yorker, 10th April 2004. Au moment de la parution du tome III de la biographie de Norman Sherry.

71 Bergonzi, Bernard. Wartime and After. OUP, 1994.

72 **Bergonzi, Bernard. “Upon this rock : the launch of a catholic novelist” in Hill, William Thomas, 2002 (81-108)

73 *Bergonzi, Bernard. “Graham Greene at 100”. Commonweal, Oct. 2004. Au sujet du tome III de la biographie de Norman Sherry.

74 ** Birmingham, William. “Graham Greene Criticism. A Bibliographical Study”. Thought, 1952. XXVII, 72-100. AL

75 Boyle, Alexander. “Graham Greene. Irish Monthly, nov. 1949, LXXVII, 519-525. AL

76 Boyle, Alexander. “The Symbolism of Graham Greene”. Irish Monthly, 1952, 98-102 AL

77**Brennan, Michael G. “Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh and Mexico” in RenascenceRecent Critical Perspectives on Graham Greene. Fall 2002 (7-23). AL

78 Diephouse, Daniel. “The Sense of ends in Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory”. Journal of Narrative Technique, 1990, 22-41.

79 Fretrow, Fred M. “The Function of Geography in The Power and the Glory”. Descant (Forth Worth, TX, 1979, 40-48.

80**Ganteau. Jean-Michel. “ ‘Excursion to Hell’ : quelques romanciers catholiques britanniques et la seconde guerre mondiale”. Textes réunis par Bernard Gilbert. La Société anglaise en guerre, septembre 1939-août 1945. Editions du Temps, 1996 (75-91).

81**Ganteau. Jean-Michel “ ‘Belonging to their Own Kind’ : A propos de quelques romanciers catholiques britanniques contemporains”. Textes sélectionnés et rassemblés par Christiane D’Haussy. Quand religions et confessions se regardent. Didier Erudition, 1998 (209-223).

82**Ganteau, Jean-Michel. “Conservative Radicalism : Le roman catholique britannique contemporain”. Sources 4 , avril 1998 (147-73).

83 Grob, Alan. The Power and the Glory : Graham Green’s Arguments from Design”. Criticism, XI, Winter, 1-30.

84 Higdon, David, Leon. “A Textual History of Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory. Studies in Bibliography (33), 1980, 222-39.

85 Higgins, Michael W. “Greene’s priest : a sort of rebel”. Essays in Graham Greene (3), 1992, 9-23.

86 Janisch, Josandra. “The Power and the Glory, by Graham Greene”. Crux, 1980, 30-37.

87 Jordan, Gretchen Graf. “Adultery and its Fruit in The Scarlet Letter and The Power and the Glory : The relation of Meaning to Form”. Yale Review, 71 : 1, 1981 (72-87).

88 Kim, Sang-Im. “The Quest of Mystery : The Waste Land and The Power and the Glory. Journal of English Language and Literature (Chongju) Dec. 1995, 35-49.

89 Kunkel, Francis L. “Graham Greene : the Staying Power and the Glory”. Critic, 1991, 48-55.

90 Malamet, Elliott. “The Uses of Delay in The Power and the Glory”. Renascence. Essays on Values in Literature. Summer 1994, vol. XLIV, n°4 (211-23). AL

91 Menshaw, Michael. “The Staying Power and the Glory”. Nation (USA), 1977, 469-72

92 Muller, C.H. “Religious Themes in The Power and the Glory”. Communiqué, 1983, 22-38.

93 *Orwell, George. “The Sanctified Sinner”. New Yorker, XXIV, July 17, 1948, 61-63. AL

94 Pearson, Sheryl S. “Is there anybody there ? Graham Greene in Mexico. Journal of Modern Literature. 9 :2, 1992. (227-290).

95 ** Regard, Frédéric. “Le cinéma d’auteur selon Graham Greene : principes d’une ‘eikono-graphie’ ”. Etudes Britanniques Contemporaines, 26 juin 2004 (93-106)..

96 Schloesser, Stephen. “Altogether Adverse. The story of Graham Greene and the Holy Office”. America, n°15, November 11, 2000 (8-13).

97 Stratford, Philip.Graham Greene. Master of Melodrama”. Spring 1961, 67-86. AL

98 Swift, Bernard C. “The Dangerous Edge of Things : Mauriac, Greene and the Idea of the Catholic Novel”. Journal of European Studies, 22, 1992 (11-26).

99 Terrien, Samuel. “Was Graham Greene a Donatist ?” Theology Today, vol. 48, January 1992 (1-8). AL

100 Thomas, D.P. “Mr Tench and Secondary Glory in The Power and the Glory”. English Language Notes, VII, 129-133.

101 Woodman, Thomas. “Graham Greene and the paradoxical Church of The Power and the Glory”, in Hill, William Thomas, ed. Lang, 2002 (139-152).

 

Articles non recensés dans la précédente bibliographie :

Bergonzi, Bernard. “The Catholic Novel. Is there Any Such Thing ?” Commonweal, May 4th 2007 (10-12). AL

Bosco, Mark, S.J. “Seeing the Glory : Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory through the Lens of Hans Urs von Balathazar’s Theological Aesthetics.” Logos 4 : 1 Winter 2001 (34-53). AL

**Braybrooke, Neville. “Graham Greene : A Pioneer Novelist. The English Journal, vol.39, n°8 (Oct.., 1950 (415-423).

 Brennan, Michael G. “Graham Greene’s Catholic Conversion Logos 9:3 Summer 2006 (134-157). AL

Burgess, Anthony. “Politics in the Novels of Graham Greene”. History 2.2 (1967) : 93-99. AL Davis, Robert Murray. “Perfection or the life or of the work : Lives of Graham Greene”. World Literature Today. Spring 1996, vol.70 (2p.) AL

Franklin, Ruth. “God in the details : Graham Greene’s religious realism”. New Yorker, October 4, 2004.AL

G.C. “Procrustes’ Bed. Sewanee Review, Winter 93, vol. 101, issue 1, XXII. AL

Godman, Peter. “Graham Greene’s Vatican Dossier”. The Atlantic Dossier July/August 2001.

*Gotia, Andrei. “God’s Image. The Betrayer and the Betrayed in Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory”. Logos 10: I , Winter 2007 (106-115) AL.

***Hodgkins, Hope Howell. “The Apophetic Heart : Graham Greene’s Negative Rhetoric” ***Lanone, Christine. “L’explicit(e) dans The Power and the Glory de Graham Greene”. Etudes Anglaises, vol. 56, oct., nov., déc. 2006 (427-440).

***Monod, Sylvère. “Le Chantre de l’ennui : Graham Greene 1978-1892”. Etudes Anglaises, avril/sept. 1982 (142-153).

Reeves, Troy. “Duty and Heroism in The Power and the Glory”.  CCTE Sudies 63 (1998): 43-49). AL

Torre, Michael. “Greene’s Saints. The Whiskey Priest, Scobie and Sarah.” Logos 7:I, Winter 2004. (63-77). AL

Winchert, Robert A. “The Quality of Graham Greene’s Mercy”. College English 25.2 (1963) 99-103. AL

 

Thèses

102 Bourgeois-Cherpin, Françoise. 1982 (Jacques Aubert). “Présence féminine dans les romans de Graham Greene.” Paris III. TP 1982-70.

103 Charmes-Lecussan, Marie-Germaine. 3ème cycle,1983. (François Lombard). “Influences Littéraires autour des Problèmes existentiels dans les œuvres de Graham Greene.” Limoges. 820 19 GREENE 8 CHA.

104 Dekani, Hadji. 1980 (Jacques Atherton) “Le Tiers Monde dans l’œuvre de Graham Greene”. Marne-la Vallée. MSH  TH 1605.

105 Drabo, Allasane. 1996 (Jacqueline Bardolph). “Seuils, Passages et entre-deux. Le personnage de l’expatrié chez Grahame Greene.” Nice. Procédés narratologique, mythocritiques. The Power and the Glory sont des mots-clefs.

106 ** Genin, Thierry, 3ème cycle, 1983, 266p. (Robert Silhol). “Thèmes et Symboles de La Puissance et la Gloire”. Sorbonne. I 4=9776.

107 * Goulipian, Armand. 1997. “Humour et métaphysique chez Graham Greene”. Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand II. Thèse publié

108** Kumar, Veena, 1985, 3ème cycle, 321p. (Sylvère Monod) “Le Développement de l’Art de Graham Greene”. Sorbonne. I 4=11340.

109 Levitte-Duggan, 1985, 344p. (Michelle Lares). “Aspects de l’Anti-Sémitisme dans le roman contemporain anglais : Graham Greene, C.P. Snow”. Paris XIII. TH85 DUG.

110 Lodge, David : “Catholic Fiction since the Oxford Movement—its Literary Form and Religious Contents”. UCL, 1959, non publiée.

 

Disponibles en librairie :

**The Portable Graham Greene, ed. Philip Stratford. Penguin Classics, 1994, 527p. Introduction, Philip Stratford, IX-XV.

***Bergonzi, Bernard. A Study in Greene—Graham Greene and the Art of the Novel. OUP, 2006. 197p. ISBN Oxford UP O-19-929102-0 (30 euros)., ch. 5 “Mexico“ (103-116), ch. 6 “A Catholic Novelist“ (117-141). Et écriture cinématographique, morality play.

*** Lodge, David. The Year of Henry James. The Story of a Novel, with other essays on the genesis, composition and reception of literary fiction. Part 2, ***Chapitre 4 “Graham Greene and the Anxiety of Influence (202-223).  Harvill Secker,, 2006. 332p.

***Sherry, Norman. The Life of Graham Greene : 1904-1939. ISBN Penguin USA 0-14-200420-0 (22 euros).

**The Life of Graham Greene : 1939-1955. ISBN Penguin USA 0-14-20042-1 (22 euros). 

*The Life of Graham Green 1955-1991. ISBN Penguin USA 0-14-30303613-0 (28 euros)

 

Ouvrages parus pour le concours

Gallix, François. The Power and the Glory : Le Credo de Graham Greene, préface de Bernard Bergonzi. Ellipses. Première Leçon. 2006.

Gallix François et Vanessa Guignery, eds. The Power and the Glory : The Sorbonne Conference. Plus sur Greene. Atlande, 2007. Actes de la journée d’agrégation du 15 novembre 2006,  avec Bernard Bergonzi. Textes de Bernard Bergonzi, Catherine Pesso-Miquel, Sophie Aymès, Michel Naumann, Armand Goulipian, Christian Gutleben, Delphine Cingal, François Gallix. L’enregistrement de la conférence de Bernard Bergonzi est audible sur www.ercla.paris4.sorbonne.fr

Gutleben, Christian. Graham Greene. The Power and the Glory. Atlande 2007.

Lanone, Catherine. The Power and the Glory. Graham Greene. CNED, 2006.

(Gallix, François. “Un écrivain sous influence : Joseph Conrad au cœur de Graham Greene”. Joseph Conrad aujourd’hui. Bibliothèque polonaise de Paris. 6 quai d’Orléans. 75004 Paris. Vendredi 22 juin, 16h.)

Feuillet, Michel. Vocabulaire du Christianisme. Que-Sais-je, 2000. Quelques notions de base utiles, ex.Gnosticisme, Jansénisme, transsubstantiation, sacrements

 

Graham Greene Birthplace Trust. http://www.grahamgreenebt.org

Dixième ‘Festival’ Graham Greene à Berkhamsted du 27 au 29 septembre 2007, à Berkhamsted. Films, conférences, livres, exposition. Andrew Biswell :  ‘Saints, Sinners and Exiles : Graham Greene and Anthony Burgess’. Robert Davis : ‘Figures in Greene’s Carpet : from The Power and the Glory to Monsignor Quixote’. William Boyd : ‘The Heart of the Matter’

Publications.“A Sort of Newsletter”.

 

 

BERGONZI, Bernard. A Study in Greene. OUP, 2006.

 

            The title—a subverted version of the first Sherlock Holmes—A Study in Scarlet, the jacket illustration specially designed for Bergonzi : the mysterious Brighton Rock suggesting the probable weapon used by Pinkie to murder Hale and the pun on the colour name codes that Greene enjoyed making—are a perfect introduction to Bergonzi’s book. Brighton Rock is also Bergonzi’s favourite novel  by Greene which he considers to be a modern indecipherable text and one of the masterpieces of the first half of the twentieth century. The first pages set the general tone : “tongue in cheek“, Bernard Bergonzi, emeritus Professor at the University of Warwick and one of the world’s experts on Graham Greene explains that he aims at the common reader, hoping that the academics will also get the message ! Obviously, his friend David Lodge—another Greenian expert—is not very far off and is, in fact, often quoted. There is therefore no risk of what Greene made every effort to avoid : boredom, in this quest for the Greene Man ! Many asides like “In The Comedians, the mortality rate is very high, even for a Graham Greene novel“ ! illustrate the fact that we are not reading a cold , austere manual of criticism.

            The motivation behind this publication is Bergonzi’s impatience after reading the introductions to the new editions published for the centenary of Greene’s birth, which he finds too promotional and biographical, with the exception of Zadie Smith’s, which he appreciates and quotes several times. The refusal of a biographical approach has not prevented Bergonzi from analyzing Greene’s personal mythology built over the years and  transposed in most of his works (his childhood reading, the sense of the frontier, his attraction to suicide and his conversion to Catholicism).

            The critic never hesitates to make personal choices. He is not keen on The Quiet American but thinks Our Man in Havana is “a highly accomplished comedy“ ; he considers The Lawless Roads to be a complex literary text—much more than a mere travel book—and sees The End of the Affair as one of Greene’s few first-person narratives to have a credible female character (like Conrad, Greene was often criticized for the lack of authenticity of his women characters).

            Bergonzi prefers Michael Shelden’s caustic biography for its relevant critical appreciations to Norman Sherry’s three-volume hagiography (which, however, in my opinion, remains extremely useful to scholars thanks to the detective work of the biographer and to his extensive knowledge of Conrad—which inspired Greene to select him to be his biographer). The critic refutes some of his predecessors’ arguments, questions what he had himself published in the 80s when he had stated that The Comedians was one of Greene’s best novels, reconsiders what he had written in Reading the Thirties (1978), and gives a greater literary impact to The Power and the Glory amongst Greene’s works.

            Bergonzi’s study is essentially critical and literary : Greene’s writing is analyzed through its multiple aspects : the influence of Imagist poetry, of Mass Obvervation (in Brighton Rock, notably), the blending of realism and fables. The considerable impact of his illustrious mentors is constantly recalled : Joseph Conrad, even if Greene feared to fall totally under his influence, Ford Madox Ford whose Good Soldier he re-read several times. It is difficult to make a choice from among the very rich pages of Bergonzi’s book. We can particularly select the role of morality and Elizabethean and Jacobean plays in the writing, the themes and the distribution of characters in The Power and the Glory and also the interpretation he gives of cinematic writing, based on Sergei Eisenstein, which inverses the usual assumption and suggests that it is the cinema that got its inspiration from the novel’s narrative techniques rather than the contrary.

            It is also a complete inventory of Greene’s works from his first novels to his last books during almost sixty years of writing from 1929 to 1988. All the Greenian themes are evoked and analyzed : betrayal (see Conrad)—as early as The Man Within, a strong leaning towards melodrama, an obsession for  suicide. The Greenian figure that comes out of Bergonzi’s book  is finally that of an exceptional news reporter, a clear-sighted critic, a crafty script-writer and, above all an unconventional novelist whose way of writing, hidden under an apparent facility, is in fact that of a dramatic poet.

            Bergonzi ends with a wish : “I hope people will go on reading Greene, but read him differently, and perhaps read him better“. This is certainly not just paying mere lip-service

 

François Gallix, Cercles, 2007.

           

 

 

 

       

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