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| Thursday, September 1st, 2011 | |
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| _3:02 am_[vonjunzt] |
Greene's library If anyone's still alive in this community, you might find it of interest that LibraryThing is presently cataloging Graham Greene's library. I'll be interested to see what books he had . . . (Comment on this) |
| Wednesday, October 13th, 2010 | |
| _2:53 am_[uncertainid] |
If anyone is interested... I am not sure if this is allowed on this community (if not delete) but if it is good. :)I have written a little drabble/character study, only about 700 words long, based on the character of Pinkie in Brighton Rock. uncertainid.livejournal.com/2312.htmlFollow the link to read. Comments would be appreciated. Thank you. Current Mood:  contemplative (Comment on this) |
| Tuesday, October 12th, 2010 | |
| _4:29 am_[uncertainid] |
A Brighton Rock Rant. As a big Brighton Rock fan (both the film and the book), I have written a rant about why I like it so much on my journal.It's not very impressive and may go around in circles, but if you feel like reading it, here's the link to it.uncertainid.livejournal.com/2125.html;) Current Mood:  accomplished (3 Comments |Comment on this) |
| Saturday, July 17th, 2010 | |
| _4:54 pm_[mewsea] |
A basic poll Hi folks!This seems like a quiet community, but I was thinking of posting, and I wanted to see if people were still interested in talking Greene. So here's a poll: Poll #1593494 Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All. Participants: 5 What sort(s) of Greene works do you like the best? View Answers Serious novels 4(25.0%) Humorous novels 3(18.8%) Religious subject matter 3(18.8%) Short stories 3(18.8%) Political 1(6.2%) Non-fiction 0(0.0%) Biography 1(6.2%) Autobiography 1(6.2%) Plays 0(0.0%) Film writing 0(0.0%) Other (in comments) 0(0.0%) Which do you prefer? View Answers Early writings 0(0.0%) Mid-life writings 2(66.7%) Late-life writings 1(33.3%) Which novel is your favorite? View Answers Which short story is your favorite? View Answers (3 Comments |Comment on this) |
| Sunday, February 22nd, 2009 | |
| _12:15 pm_[vonjunzt] |
Quotation search (again) I've recently finished reading The End of the Affair, and did not find the quote I was looking for -- something to the effect that grief is erotic, or that funerals are erotic. I have recently found this quotation which is similar: "anguish, which lays us open to annihilation and death, is always linked to eroticism; our sexual activity finally rivets us to the distressing image of death, and the knowledge of death deepens the abyss of eroticism." That's from French surrealist Georges Bataille's The Accursed Share (II, 84). I may have stumbled across that quote some time ago when I was looking for information on  williamseabrook and Documents, but I doubt it. If someone comes across a quote like the one I mentioned in one of Greene's books, I'd still like to hear of it.Thanks! (Comment on this) |
| Saturday, January 17th, 2009 | |
| _3:48 pm_[vonjunzt] |
Quotation I've been trying to find a Graham Greene quotation, and I was hoping some of my fellow Greeneies could help me. The quotation is something like "There is a certain eroticism in grief." Obviously that may not be exact, but that's the gist of it. If I remember correctly, the statement is made in connection with a man who meets a young girl at a funeral or cremation and prays that God will protect her from him. I had thought at first it was in The End of the Affair, but am having trouble finding it. It may be in a different book. Anyway, can anyone help me find it?Thanks! (Comment on this) |
| Friday, December 26th, 2008 | |
| _5:11 pm_[vonjunzt] |
Our Man in Havana Our Man in Havana turned 50 this month. There's a short article about it on abebooks.com, which of course is aimed at getting you to buy Greene's books, but I thought I'd point it out all the same. (Comment on this) |
| Monday, March 19th, 2007 | |
| _1:57 pm_[vonjunzt] |
This poem appears as an appendix to Volume III of Norman Sherry's biography of Greene.Suddenly last nightI wanted to die;For no apparent reason the horror descendedAs it will again,Just as the dove, the dove always descendsOn the saint, the good: even the luckyWho live the tranquil aging lifeWith children and wife,Faithful and content.To meThe angry,The hopeless, the badHow strangely people are good to me,Who have done nothing to merit such goodness,From you,From a priest at Padua,From a stranger seen in the street,Even from this waiterWho said, 'How are you?' with tenderness,Seeing me stumble and inarticulateIn the anonymous restaurant car.I try to write this letterTo the woman I only love,Doped and drowsy and weak,Unable to find the convincing wordsTo say, 'I love. I love.'He knew too well I had too much dopeAnd too little hope.So I love that man,With his kindly breathStaring at my death.In the clatter of forks and knives.And if I had more lives,Maybe I would live thus,With a wife and children and no fuss.With none of the nerves that breakBecause one loves and lovesThe unattainable.-- Graham Greene (1 Comment |Comment on this) |
| Saturday, June 10th, 2006 | |
| _2:26 am_[vonjunzt] |
Brightonwurst? I thought this article might be of interest to those who have read Brighton Rock. From here.The wurst way to go?Fri Jun 9, 2006 6:38am ET163Oddly Enough NewsFRANKFURT (Reuters) - German police have arrested a man on suspicion of murdering a woman with a sausage.Prosecutors and police said the 50-year-old was arrested after the woman's body was discovered in an apartment in Zwickau, eastern Germany. They said she had choked on a Bockwurst, a popular large German sausage.The prosecutors said the man had given a patchy account of events, acknowledging that he may have "administered" a Bockwurst to the woman. They are now working to establish exactly what happened in the run up to her death.© Reuters 2006. All Rights Reserved. (Comment on this) |
| Saturday, December 31st, 2005 | |
| _5:56 pm_[dfordoom] |
Graham Greene books this year Did you read any of Graham Greene's books this year, and if so which ones? And what did you think of them?I read The Ministry of Fear and Brighton Rock this year. (2 Comments |Comment on this) |
| Friday, December 30th, 2005 | |
| _5:33 pm_[oh_scaredyqueen] |
Hello, I'm new to the community. It's kind of hard to believe that such a great writer only has one.I'm kind of new to his work, I found a couple books of his at a library sale, 'Journey Without Maps' and 'The Comedians', which I love. I've yet to get some more of his books, but planning to soon.. Any recommendations on which ones I should look for first? Current Mood:  content (3 Comments |Comment on this) |
| Thursday, December 8th, 2005 | |
| _8:07 am_[dfordoom] |
Graham Greene as screenwriter When we think of Graham Greene I guess we usually think of him as a novelist, but I’d argue that he was also one of the greatest screenwriters in the history of cinema. After all his screenwriting credits include The Third Man, The Fallen Idol (like The Third Man directed by Carol Reed) and Brighton Rock - all great films, and either original screenplays or based on his own novels. (Comment on this) |
| Friday, November 25th, 2005 | |
| _8:43 pm_[dfordoom] |
The Ministry of Fear I recently rediscovered Graham Greene, after picking up a copy of The Ministry of Fear at a library sale. I loved that book! (2 Comments |Comment on this) |
| Thursday, June 9th, 2005 | |
| _5:49 pm_[vonjunzt] |
New Greene book! Nearly 10 years after his death, Graham Greene is coming out with a new book: No Man's Land. Published by Hesperus Press, it's supposed to come out in October. Here's the publisher's website and blurb: |
| Wednesday, April 27th, 2005 | |
| _1:09 pm_[vonjunzt] |
Graham Greene-esque novel? I just read this article from the New York Times and thought some of you might be interested:"The Novelist Who Was Also a Spy, Or Not."http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/26/books/26math.htmlApparently a semi-autobiographical novel called My Life in C.I.A. by Harry Matthews. It's about a novelist whose friends believe him to be a spy. So he starts pretending to be a spy, and real spies take notice. Reminds me of Our Man in Havanna. I might have to look up this book. (Comment on this) |
| Sunday, March 27th, 2005 | |
| _12:45 am_[bada_what] |
hey guys i'm new...I was doing some research on graham greene and I really can't disipher between his greatest work. I've narrowed it down to Brighton Rock and The Power and Glory...What do you guys think his greates/most popular/most acclaimed novel is and why? (3 Comments |Comment on this) |
| Sunday, March 20th, 2005 | |
| _1:45 am_[justine5] |
just interested are there any sites with any available Green texts in the net. (2 Comments |Comment on this) |
| _1:25 am_[vonjunzt] |
The Tenth Man; Our Man in Havana predecessor I recently finished reading The Tenth Man. It's good, though probably not one of Greene's best. As with The Third Man, watch out for spoilers in the Introduction. Greene felt The Third Man owed a lot of its characterizations to The Third Man; the character Welles plays is certainly reminiscent of Carosse.The premise is that a group of men are held as hostages by the Germans in Occupied France, and a decimation order is issued -- one in ten are to be executed in reprisal for Resistance action. The plot bears similiarities to Doctor Fischer of Geneva. Part of it also seems like an inversion of the story of St. Maximalian Kolbe, a priest who was executed in Auschwitz after volunteering to take the place of another man following just such a decimation order. Here's his story: http://www.catholic-pages.com/saints/st_maximilian.asp I'm not sure if Greene knew of St. Max's story, but if he did, he learned of it after coming up with the plot of his story -- it was originally to be a tale of the Spanish Civil War and predated the onset of WWII.If nothing else, people who enjoyed Our Man in Havana will want to read "Nobody to Blame," one of two sketches Greene includes in the Introduction. This (and the other, "Jim Braddon and the War Criminal") was originally going to be a film script, but instead it grew into Greene's novel. (Comment on this) |
| Friday, February 25th, 2005 | |
| _7:42 pm_[dr_niall] |
I recently, in New York, saw a copy of the portable Graham Greene. I know it's a Penguin book and I wondered if any of you knew where I could pick up a copy in England, other than the internet (1 Comment |Comment on this) |
| Sunday, February 6th, 2005 | |
| _10:22 pm_[vonjunzt] |
The Third Man I recently read The Third Man and watched the 1949 film. This is the one story Greene specifically wrote for the screen, and he says he wrote the book to prepare himself to write the screenplay. I liked them both, but I just wanted to warn anyone who was planning on reading the book to skip the preface and come back to it. Greene assumed anyone who read the preface had already seen the movie (which I hadn't), and he gives away major plot twists. Anyway, just wanted to forewarn anyone who's interested . . . (2 Comments |Comment on this) |
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