TY - BOOK ID - 4896444 TI - Graham Greene : political writer PY - 2016 SN - 9781137343956 1137343958 134967432X 1137343966 PB - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Political and social views. KW - Political fiction, English. KW - Political fiction, English KW - Politique-fiction anglaise KW - History and criticism. KW - Histoire et critique KW - Greene, Graham, KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Literature. KW - English Literature KW - English KW - Languages & Literatures KW - History and criticism KW - British literature. KW - Literature-History and criticism. KW - Literature, Modern-20th century. KW - European literature. KW - Fiction. KW - British and Irish Literature. KW - Literary History. KW - Twentieth-Century Literature. KW - European Literature. KW - Fiction KW - Metafiction KW - Novellas (Short novels) KW - Novels KW - Stories KW - Literature KW - Novelists KW - European literature KW - Philosophy KW - Literature—History and criticism. KW - Literature, Modern—20th century. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:4896444 AB - Graham Greene remarked that 'politics are in the air we breathe, like the presence or absence of a God' (The Other Man). This study is the first to provide a detailed consideration of the impact of his political thought and involvements on his writings both fictional and factual. It also offers the first detailed consideration of Greene's involvements in espionage and British intelligence from the 1920s until the late-1980s. It incorporates material not only from his major fictions but also from his prolific journalism, letters to the press, private correspondence, diaries and working manuscripts and typescripts, as well as consideration of the diverse political involvements and writings of his extended family network. It shows how the full range of Greene's writings was inspired and underpinned by his fascination with the essential human duality of political action and religious belief, coupled with an insistent need as a writer to keep the political personal. ER -