Aham Greene: An Approach To The Novels; Author: Hoskins, Robert; Hardback; Book

Author: Hoskins, Robert
Series#:1684; Garland Reference Library of the Humanities; Hardback; Book
300 pages
Published: July 1999
Taylor & Francis Inc
ISBN: 0815312652

This study reveals Greene in a dual role as author, one who projects literary experience into his view of life and subsequently projects both his experience and its literary interpretation into his fiction; and it defines two phases of Greene's novels through the changing relationship between writer and protagonists. The first phase progresses from acutely sensitive, self-divided young men somewhat like the young Greene to embittered, alienated characters ostensibly at great distance from their creator. The second phase (1939-) includes a series of portraits of the artist through which Greene confronts more directly the tensions and conflicts of his private life.This text reveals Greene in a dual role as author, one who projects literary experience into his view of life and subsequently projects both his experience and its literary interpretation into his fiction.