In Search of a Character: Two African Journals (Vintage classics)

In Search of a Character: Two African Journals (Vintage classics)

by Graham Greene (Author)

Synopsis

Greene set two of his novels in Africa, A Burnt-Out Case (Yonda leper colony) and The Heart of the Matter (the Congo). They arose from separate visits during which he kept journals. The journals are printed here and provide a glimpse of the novelist responding to the raw material of his art.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 01 Jun 2000

ISBN 10: 0099284243
ISBN 13: 9780099284246

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Africa will always be the Africa of the Victorian atlas, the blank unexplored continent in the shape of the human heart. - Graham Greene
Author Bio
Graham Greene (1904-1991) worked as a journalist and critic, and was later employed by the Foreign Office. His many books include The Power and the Glory, The Third Man, Our Man in Havana, The Comedians and Travels with My Aunt. He is the subject of an acclaimed three-volume biography by Norman Sherry.