Graham Greene

Graham Greene
Gebuertsnumm	Henry Graham Greene
Gebuer	2. Oktober 1904
Gestuerwen	3. Abrëll 1991 Vevey
Doudesursaach	Leukemie
Nationalitéit	Vereenegt Kinnekräich
Educatioun	Balliol College
Aktivitéit	Schrëftsteller, Romancier, Dramatiker, Journalist, Dréibuchauteur, Autobiograph, Kannerbuchauteur, Spioun
Member vun	Royal Society of Literature

De Graham Greene, gebuer den 2. Oktober 1904 zu Berkhamsted, am Hertfordshire, a gestuerwen den 3. Abrëll 1991 zu Vevey an der Schwäiz; fir richteg Henry Graham Greene, war e brittesche Schrëftsteller.

Hien huet seng Carrière als Zeitungsredakter ugefaangen. An den 1930er huet hie Filmkritike geschriwwen an ass vill doruechter gereest, wat en dono a sengen Erzielunge veschafft huet. Wärend dem Zweete Weltkrich huet hie fir de britteschen Auslandsgeheimdéngscht a Westafrika geschafft.

Seng Romaner haten zum Deel grousse Succès, an thematiséieren ëmmer nees zentral Theeme vun der human condition wéi Schold, (On-)Glawen a Verrot, meeschtens am Kader vun enger Abenteur-, Kriminal- oder Spionagegeschicht. Hie war géint de Kolonialismus a seng Aberratiounen, géint d'US-amerikanesch Aussepolitik a Mëttel- a Südamerika an an Indochina, an huet sech dacks kritesch mat der Kierch auserneegesat; säi Roman The Power and the Glory gouf 1953 op den Index gesat.

Wärend a sengen éischte Romaner dacks eng driipseg, schappeg Atmosphär den Toun ugëtt, kënnt a senge méi spéide Romaner dacks e gudde Schotz schwaarzen Humor zum Ausdrock. De Greene huet sech dacks gelangweilt gefillt an huet vill gedronk, fir deeës lass ze ginn. A ville Romaner spillt Alkohol dann och eng grouss Roll, wéi z. B. an der decisiver Zeen vun Our man in Havanna.

Nieft Romaner huet de Graham Greene och Theaterstécker (säin éischt Stéck The living-room war e grousse Succès), autobiographesch Texter (z. B. Ways of Escape) an Dréibicher geschriwwen (z. B. vun The Third Man an The Comedians).

Eng jett vu senge Romaner goufe vu Regisseure wéi John Ford, Otto Preminger, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Neil Jordan oder Carol Reed (The Third Man, Our Man in Havanna) verfilmt.

Wierker

Romaner

• 1929 The Man Within
• 1932 Stamboul Train (US-Titel Orient Express, 1933)
• 1934 It's a Battlefield
• 1935 The Bear Fell Free
• 1935 England Made Me (US-Titel The Shipwrecked, 1953)
• 1936 A Gun for Sale. An Entertainment
• 1938 Brighton Rock
• 1939 The Confidential Agent
• 1940 The Power and the Glory
• 1943 The Ministry of Fear
• 1948 The Heart of the Matter
• 1950 The Third Man
• 1951 The End of the Affair
• 1955 Loser Takes All
• 1955 The Quiet American
• 1958 Our Man in Havanna
• 1960 A Burnt-Out Case
• 1966 The Comedians
• 1969 Travels With My Aunt
• 1973 The Honorary Consul
• 1978 The Human Factor
• 1980 Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party
• 1982 Monsignor Quixote
• 1985 The Tenth Man (geschriwwen 1944)
• 1988 The Captain and the Enemy

Erzielungen

• 1929 The End of the Party (Kuerzgeschicht)
• 1963 A Sense of Reality (dodran: Under the Garden, A Visit to Morin, Dream of a Strange Land, A Discovery in the Woods)
• 1967 May We Borrow Your Husband? (dodran: May We Borrow Your Husband?, Beauty, Chagrin in Three Parts, The Over-night Bag, Mortmain, Cheap in August, A Shocking Accident, The Invisible Japanese Gentlemen, Awful When You Think of It, Doctor Crombie, The Root of All Evil, Two Gentle People)
• 1990 The Last Word and Other Stories (dodran: The Last Word, The News in English, The Moment of Truth, The Man Who Stole the Eiffel Tower, The Lieutenant Died Last, A Branch of the Service, An Old Man's Memory, The Lottery Ticket, The New House, Work Not in Progress, Murder for the Wrong Reason, An Appointment With the General)

Theaterstécker

• 1953 The Great Jowett (Lauschterspill)
• 1953 The Living Room
• 1957 The Potting Shed
• 1959 The Complaisant Lover
• 1964 Carving a Statue
• 1975 The Return of A.J.Raffles
• 1980 For Whom the Bell Chimes

Autobiographien

• 1971 A Sort of Life
• 1980 Ways of Escape
• 1984 Getting to Know the General. The Story of an Involvement
• 1992 A World of My Own: A Dream Diary

Kannerbicher

• 1946 The Little Train (mat Illustratioune vun der Dorothy Craigie)
• 1950 The Little Fire Engine (mat Illustratioune vun der Dorothy Craigie)
• 1952 The Little Horse Bus (mat Illustratioune vun der Dorothy Craigie)
• 1955 The Little Steamroller (mat Illustratioune vun der Dorothy Craigie)

Lyrik

• 1925 Babbling April
• 1983 A Quick Look Behind

Reesliteratur

• 1936 Journey without Maps
• 1939 The Lawless Roads
• 1961 In Search of a Character: Two African Journals
• 1990 A Weed Among the Flowers

Dréibicher

• 1937 The Future's in the Air
• 1940 The New Britain
• 1940 21 Days (nom Roman The First and The Last vum John Galsworthy)
• 1947 Brighton Rock
• 1948 The Fallen Idol
• 1949 The Third Man
• 1956 Loser Takes All
• 1957 Saint Joan (nom Stéck Saint Joan vum George Bernard Shaw)
• 1959 Our Man in Havana
• 1967 The Comedians

Soss

• 1932 The Old School: Essays by Divers Hands (Essays)
• 1942 British Dramatists
• 1948 Why Do I Write? An Exchange of Views between Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene and V.S. Pritchett
• 1951 The Lost Childhood and Other Essays
• 1957 The Spy's Bedside Book (erausgi mam Hugh Greene)
• 1969 Aféierung vu My Silent War vum Kim Philby
• 1969 Collected Essays
• 1974 Lord Rochester's Monkey. Being the Life of John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester (Biographie).
• 1975 An Impossible Woman: The Memories of Dottoressa Moor of Capri (Editeur)
• 1980 The Pleasure-Dome: The Collected Film Criticism, 1935–40
• 1982 J'Accuse: The Dark Side of Nice
• 1989 Yours, etc.: Letters to the Press
• 1989 Why the Epigraph?
• 1991 Reflections
• 1993 The Graham Greene Film Reader: Reviews, Essays, Interviews and Film Stories
• 2006 Articles of Faith: The Collected Tablet Journalism of Graham Greene
• 2007 Graham Greene: A Life in Letters (erausgi vum Richard Greene)

Literatur

• John A. Atkins: Graham Greene. Calder & Boyars, London 1970
• Ulrich Greiwe: Graham Greene und der Reichtum des Lebens. Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag, München 2004 ISBN 3-423-24417-8
• Josef Rischik: Graham Greene und sein Werk. Dissertation Universität Bern u. Schweizer anglistische Arbeiten, 28. Bd., Francke, Bern 1951
• Michael Shelden: Graham Greene: eine Biographie. Steidl, Göttingen 1995 ISBN 3-88243-368-X
• Norman Sherry: The Life of Graham Greene. Penguin Books, Harmonsworth 1990 ff (vol. 1-3)
• William J. West: The Quest for Graham Greene. St. Martin's Pr., New York 1988 ISBN 0-312-18161-2