Graham Greene格雷厄姆格林简介

Graham Greene

格雷厄姆

·

格林简介

1904-

消遣：

Stamboul Train

斯坦布尔列车

;A Gun for Sale

一支出卖的枪

;Our Man in Havana

我们在哈瓦纳的人严肃：

The Power and the Glory

权力与荣誉

;The Heart of the Matter

问题的

核心

;The

End

of

the

Affair

爱情的结局

;The

Quiet

American;The

Comedians

喜剧演员

;The

Human Favor

人的因素

in full

Henry Graham Greene

born Oct. 2, 1904, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, Eng.

died April 3, 1991, Vevey, Switz.

English novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and journalist whose

novels treat life's moral ambiguities in the context of contemporary

political settings.

His

father

was

the

headmaster

of

Berkhamsted

School,

which

Greene

attended

for some years. After running away from school, he was sent to London to

a psychoanalyst in whose house he lived while under treatment. After

studying at Balliol College, Oxford, Greene converted to Roman

Catholicism in 1926, partly through the influence of his future wife,

Vivien

Dayrell- Browning,

whom

he

married

in

1927.

He

moved

to London

and

worked

for

The

Times

as

a

copy

editor

from

1926

to

1930.

His

first

published

work was a book of verse,

Babbling April

(1925), and upon the modest

success of his first novel,

The Man Within

(1929), he quit

The Times

and

worked

as

a

film

critic

and

literary

editor

for

The

Spectator

until

1940.

He

then

traveled

widely

for

much

of

the

next

three

decades

as

a

freelance

journalist, searching out locations for his novels in the process.

Greene's first three novels are held to be of small account. He began to

come into his own with a thriller,

Stamboul Train

(1932; also entitled

Orient Express

), which plays off various characters against each other

as they ride a train from the English Channel to Istanbul. This was the

first of a string of novels that he termed “entertainments,” works

similar

to

thrillers

in

their

spare,

tough

language

and

their

suspenseful,

swiftly

moving

plots,

but

possessing

greater

moral

complexity

and

depth.

Stamboul Train

was also the first of Greene's many novels to be filmed

(1934). It was followed by three more entertainments that were equally

popular

with

the

reading

public:

A

Gun

for

Sale

(1936;

also

entitled

This

Gun For Hire;

filmed 1942),

The Confidential Agent

(1939; filmed 1945),

and

The

Ministry

of

Fear

(1943;

filmed

1945).

A

fifth

entertainment,

The