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Graham Greene: Books
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Greene once said, "I am my books." But to read anthologies of commentary written by those who knew Greene personally is another way to understand and appreciate him. A.F. Cassis takes that tack in his volume, Graham Greene: Man of Paradox. As a self-styled "Catholic agonostic," Graham Greene indeed remains a man of paradox, very much like Miguel de Unamuno. To watch closely the present invasion of Greeneland by friend and foe alike can be depressing.
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Greene's first published novel was The Man Within in 1929, and its reception emboldened him to give up his job at The Times and work full-time as a novelist. However, the following two books were not successful (Greene disowned them in later life), and his first real success was Stamboul Train in 1932 รข€” as with several of his books, this was ... adapted as a film (Orient Express, 1934).
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Michael Shelden's biography of Greene, The Man Within, angered many supporters of the novelist. The book portrayed Greene as a pathological liar, an anti-Semite, a callous womanizer, and a bumbling political rabble-rouser, among other things. It even hinted that Greene may have something to do with the murders in Brighton, which inspired a few plotlines in Greene's writings.
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Books were a lifelong passion for Graham Greene. Book collecting, the ownership of books, and writing in books absorbed Greene, who haunted the auction rooms and secondhand bookshops of provincial England in search of books.
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