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Graham Greene: The Enemy Within.
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Michael Shelden Random House, $25, 442 pp.
In the last few months, an army of biographers has laid siege to Greeneland, but whether that paradoxical terrain has been conquered or even reliably mapped is open to question. In the books under review here, one portrays Greene as an inveterate sinner, another makes him out to be a cynical sexual predator if not a pervert, while a third celebrates Greene's irreverent piety in a fashion that all but calls for canonization. How is the reader to make sense of such contradictory readings?
Not easily. Norman Sherry, Greene's…
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Graham Greene: The Enemy Within.
...about motives. Undoubtedly, if Greene were alive today, he would vigorously...to remember certain constants in Graham Greene's life, lest these biographies...s first volume [The Life of Graham Greene, Volume 1: 1904-39], but... |
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Appreciation; Graham Greene's Private Heart; The Author Who Charted the Exotic...
Graham Greene, who died yesterday at 86, lived...publication of what turned out to be Greene's last novel, "The Captain and the Enemy." It was his 25th and, in truth...portentous fable that the younger Greene might have suppressed (as he... |
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A Watcher In the Shadows
GRAHAM GREENE The Enemy Within By Michael Shelden Random...Michael Shelden's life of Graham Greene just about says it all: Deep within this great writer lay...spy, the deceiver, the enemy of order." Though this... |
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Possibly actually intriguing.(postmodernism)(Column)
...the sexually tormented and tormenting novelist Graham Greene. According to Levenson, the index to Shelden's Graham Greene: The Enemy Within settles things once and for all, postmodernly... |
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Christmases of the Mind; Have Yourself a King Kong Christmas
...There is a story told by Graham Greene of a young English schoolboy...comes to new life. In the Graham Greene story, it is the new...The Captain and the Enemy" was published in 1980...stress that the kingdom is within us, not necessarily in... |
 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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Caine is able but not thrilling; It's Friday! Film.(Review)
...Noyce's film of Graham Greene's romantic thriller...which replaced Greene's anti-Americanism...s coming from. Greene's implication that...Sleeping With The Enemy, because he tries...trains herself - within a month - into an... |
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Georgetown class dons trench coats; Intriguing look at spy stories from Moses...
...lies, identity crises and the enemy within: "The question is, 'Who am...Sebastian says, the students had read Graham Greene's spy spoof "Our Man in Havana...like the Bowen Collection and the Graham Greene Papers," he said. "I thought... |
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An English Odyssey ; Panos Karnezis came to this country to study as an...
...us a reality exploded from within, from ordinary passions and...political concerns. "The enemy is just the enemy; you fear the enemy but you never see them...generally English or American. Graham Greene, for instance, was a huge... |
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Robert Littell.(Contemporary Authors)
...United States and the Soviet Union or within the intelligence communities themselves...have more in common with our sworn enemy than we would like to admit, Littell...work to that of John le Carre and Graham Greene. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE STORY... |
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Havana on the verge. (Havana, Cuba; includes a related article with travel...
...last, and most defiant, cold-war enemy. As a yanqui in Havana, you've...give us the daiquiri.) Luckily, within staggering distance is Hemingway...less hearty Hemingway than guilty Graham Greene; the city can seem as if it has... |
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