There is not an entirely admirable character in it but there is not one that can, by any chance, be forgotten nor one that could be set aside as untrue to life. If it is as downright as surgery, it is, also, as clean as a clinic. This is no book for those who would turn delicate noses away from the gutters and sewers of life but there is nothing that could give the faintest gratification to snickerers. Not as a return to savagery but as a horrible perversion of cerebration. In his travel book, "Journey Without Maps." That was an attempt, as he explained, to discover the evolutionary cause of our peculiar susceptibility, today, to brutality to find out not only "from what have we come"īut also "to recall at which point we went astray." Here the probing is carried further in a brilliant and uncompromising indictment of some of the worst aspects of modern civilization, showing us the hard-boiled criminal mind "Brighton Rock" is, on the face of it and as its subtitle would suggest, an entertaining - it is, in fact,Ī superlatively entertaining - fictional presentation, both objective and subjective, of criminal mentality of the 19 brand but, back of it, there is the same spiritual urge that sent him, a while ago, to West Africa and resulted Unlike manyĬontemporary English writers, his work evidences a fixed determination to grapple with the difficulties of our own time. Raham Greene belongs to the generation, born in the first decade of this century, which escaped active participation in the war, but not its consequences.
JThe Career of a Gangster Studied by Graham Greene By JANE SPENCE SOUTHRON The Career of a Gangster Studied by Graham Greene
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