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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. Les commandes doivent être adressées à CRELA Revue Cycnos, UFR Lettres, Arts et Sciences Humaines Prix du numéro: 16 euros
Maison de la recherche. 28 rue Serpente. 75006 Paris. Salle D040, rez-de-chaussée 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 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.
Contents Bibliographie. François Gallix, Paris IV. Concours 2008. 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. 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). 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 The Quiet American. Zadie
Smith No Man’s Land. Hesperus, Foreword by David Lodge. 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. 14 c ** Mockler, 15 ***Sherry, 16 ***Vol.
1 : 1904-1939. 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
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Power and the Glory. 20 *Adamson, Judith. The Dangerous Edge. When Art and Politics Meet.
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(ch.2 Greene’s 21 ***Allain, Marie-Françoise. L’Autre
et son double—Entretien avec Marie-Françoise Allain. Belfond, &98&, 225p. The Other Man—Conversations with Graham Greene.
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bonnes questions et de bonnes réponses sur l’écriture de Greene. 22 **Allott, Kenneth, Miriam Farris.. The Art of Graham Greene. 23 *Atkins, John. Graham
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suffer“ (62-77). AL 27 Cassis, A.F. Graham Greene—A Man of Paradox :
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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. 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
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of The Power and the Glory,
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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
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Film“ (73-90) AL. 35 **Evans, O. ed. Graham Greene—Some Critical Considerations. Lexington :
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V-XV. ***Excellente bibliographie de Neil Brennan
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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. 41 ** Hoggart, Richard. “The Art of Caricature :
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The Power and the Glory“. Essays in Criticism, III,
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on the Edge—Journeys in the footsteps of Graham Greene(GB : Travels without my aunt). ***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
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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.
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52 **Mesnet, Marie-Béatrice. “Graham Greene and
the heart of the matter“. 53 Meyers, Jeffrey ed. Graham Greene—A Revaluation. Macmillan, 1990, 205p. 8 chapitres
par différents auteurs, dont John Bayley,
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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.
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and Oats, University of Notre Dame Press, 1984, 298p. (101-129).
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Writers. 64 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.
68 Woodcock, George. “ 69 **Woodman, Thomas. Faithful
Fictions—The Catholic Novel in British Literature.
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, 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 ** 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 77**Brennan, Michael G. “Graham Greene,
Evelyn Waugh and 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 ( 80**Ganteau.
Jean-Michel. “ ‘Excursion to Hell’ :
quelques romanciers catholiques britanniques et la seconde guerre
mondiale”. Textes réunis par Bernard Gilbert. La
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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 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”.
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1994, vol. XLIV, n°4 (211-23). 91 Menshaw, Michael. “The Staying Power
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( 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, 94 Pearson, Sheryl S. “Is there anybody there ? Graham Greene in 95 ** Regard, Frédéric.
“Le cinéma d’auteur selon Graham Greene : principes d’une ‘eikono-graphie’
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97 98 Swift, Bernard C. “The Dangerous Edge of Things : Mauriac, Greene and the Idea of the Catholic
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Studies, 22, 1992 (11-26). 99 Terrien, Samuel. “Was Graham Greene a Donatist ?” Theology
Today, vol. 48, January 1992 (1-8). 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, 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
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4, 2004.AL G.C. “Procrustes’ Bed”. Sewanee Review, Winter 93, vol. 101, issue
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The Betrayer and the Betrayed in Graham Greene’s
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Winter 2007 (106-115) ***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, Torre, Michael. “Greene’s Saints. The Whiskey Priest, Scobie and Sarah.” Logos 7:I, Winter
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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”.
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de l’expatrié chez Grahame Greene.” Nice.
Procédés narratologique, mythocritiques.
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Portable Graham Greene, ed. Philip Stratford. Penguin
Classics, 1994, 527p. Introduction, Philip
Stratford, IX-XV. ***Bergonzi, Bernard.
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and the Art of the Novel. OUP, 2006.
197p. ISBN *** 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
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Harvill Secker,, 2006. 332p. ***Sherry, **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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