However, in its innermost forms it exists in the great tradition of poetry from Donne and Herbert to Eliot and Auden. Except for Mark Rutherford and the lesser novels of George Eliot, it has had its external manifestations in the country parsons of Fielding and Sterne, its whipping boys inīutler and Shaw, and stock characters in Jane Austen and Trollope. The intensity of their work is heightened by the fact that they are in warfare with faiths which alternately attract and repel them.īefore Greene, religion played a minor role in the English novel. With an equally powerful view of the world under the domination of God. Like Greene, they combined their powers as writers Whether designated as serious novels or entertainments, all his books, in varying degrees, reveal him as a philosophical novelist in the tradition, if not the stature, of Dostoevsky and Gide.
("The Ministry of Fear" and "The Third Man") has done little to enable one to separate the writer from his theology. His attempt to divide his many works of fiction into the categories of novels ("Brighton Rock," "The Power and the Glory" and "The Heart of the Matter") and entertainments Has never become orthodox it must come as a surprise to many readers encountering his books for the first time to discover that this adroit storyteller has involved himself and his audience with some of the more complex problems thatĪrise from the clash of dogma and drama. He is also a prominent Roman Catholic layman. T 47, Graham Greene is one of England's most important practicing novelists. After a chance meeting rekindles his love and jealousy two years later, Bendix hires a private detective to follow Sarah, and slowly his love for her turns into an obsession. The love affair between Maurice Bendix and Sarah, flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz, ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it off.
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