Talk:Graham Greene
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Isn't the writer important enough that he should have the main page? This seems to be excessive disambiguation to me. Even in the damned internet movie database the author Graham Greene shows up first. john k 07:47, 2 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- This was moved to just Graham Greene a while ago.
What about The Tenth Man (1985)? Why is it not included in his list of novels? I have to read it for english class AND write a paper on it. It would be helpful if there were SOME information!
- The Tenth Man novel is now in the list, and has its own page.
-I have to admit alot more could be said about Graham Greene than provided. I mean, he's was one of the 20th century's most prolific writers. No other writer also wrote over such a long period of time. He wrote of the 20th century and its moral and political dilemmas, and he even foreshadowed the Vietnam war to a certain extent with The Quiet American. Someone must add to this article.
Yes, i agree with what you say but not everyone is happy with his wrtings and not everyone sees him like you do.! -User: turkish Historian
- This is an old comment (2004) and the article has become much more detailed since then.
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[edit] Finishing touches?
I should like to draw attention to the ending of the "Final Years" section, and its lack of a final sentence. As of February 9, 2006, it reads thus:
"One of his final works, J'Accuse - The Dark Side of Nice, (1982), concerns a legal matter that he and Insert non-formatted text here"
I would make the necessary changes but I am unqualified to write about Greene.
- It seems like there this paragraph got lost in an anonymous edit; I've put it back. Arg 18:56, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Trivia?
Graham Greene's work is cited in the movie Donnie Darko http://imdb.com/title/tt0246578/
[edit] Error re: The Quiet American
The Author is incorrect in the assertion that the book The Quiet American was a critique of US policy in Vietnam. The Quiet American was published in 1955, and is set several years earlier, long before significant U.S. involvement in that country. The novel is set during the hopeless attempts of the French to hang onto Viet Nam while fighting the Viet Minh forces led by Ho Chi Minh. The American character in the novel probably represents the 'typically American' attitude that every problem has a solution, and that a third way can be found between the colonialism of the French and the totalitarianism of Ho Chi Minh. The novel seems to conclude that no third way exists, and that one must make a choice rather between two pretty awful choices. The American's crime (and it is understood that he has the best intentions) is really to try to find a way out of the awful dillemma.
Subsequent events make the novel look pretty prescient and the recent movie version changed the plotline to make the American culpable rather than naive. But it is wrong to state (after all that later happened) that the novel was written as a critique of US policy.
Ken Harvey203.47.220.10 23:42, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
-This completely depends upon your 'reading' of Greene and his subsequent novels' protagonists, and indeed subsidiary characters. Greene's preoccupation with Englishness does give us Fowler under the Byronic model, and to that end is he not the lead in this novel? His process of engagement with Pyle is a very 'English' way of approaching things - whereas Pyle's is very hands-on, very 'American'. This suggests, what with the quintessentially English Fowler in tow, that Pyle is his ostensibly American counterpart. The 'reading' that would follow [be it post-colonial, or post-modern, or even queer theory] would point out that there is an obvious political element to this novel, be it a power struggle (post-colonial) [American vs English vs Vietnamese], an political identity struggle (post-modern) [Fowler as 'engagé', no more] or even a question of sexual politics (queer theory)[who is more of a 'man', Fowler or Pyle?] - and to suggest that it is a critique of American foreign policy now is entirely in line with a post-modern interpretation of fiction at that time.
And after all, wasn't Greene a forerunner to post-modern writing? DaveofDundee 14:44, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Bipolar disorder
I've mentioned Greene's bipolar disorder in the intro: it's as crucial to understanding the man and his work as his Catholicism. His editor described hime as "[...] a man of strong appetites; often made utterly unmanageable by bipolar illness." As Greene himself wrote in a letter to Vivien, "Unfortunately, the disease is also one's material." -- 80.168.224.244 02:17, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
I've not encountered this particular description of Greene's mental health. Of course, it makes sense in light of his own comments in Sort of Life, but I'm curious where you got this from. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bdiemert (talk • contribs) 20:36, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
Is it a good idea to describe a psychological disorder as a fact in an encyclopedia? Such diagnoses change names (bipolar used to be called Manic Depression), and sometimes disappear. I think it would be best to describe the things he suffered from in his own words, if possible. I am going to delete this, though feel free to write it up again without the psychological terminology unless he used such terminology. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tbbarnard (talk • contribs) 16:12, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
