![]() ![]() ![]() "Bite it all the way down, you'll still read Brighton," says Big Blonde Ida. So Brighton Rock is about salvation, good and evil, hope - heavy shit. ![]() He was influenced heavily by Henry James, whom he called "as solitary in the history of the novel as Shakespeare in the history or poetry," but he'll never be accused of whacking off into a tissue, as James can be - a lot of flustering about and not much done. No matter what weighty matters he is or isn't tackling, there's always thrill, drama, plot. He drew a line between the "Entertainments" like Stamboul Train and The Third Man (none of which I've read) and the more serious "Novels." You could break it down further: he wrote some political novels like the Quiet American and Our Man in Havana, and a number of religious (Catholic) ones like Power and the Glory, End of the Affair and Brighton Rock.īut they're all entertainment, is the thing with Greene. Graham Greene sometimes categorized his own novels. ![]()
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