In Search Of a Character: Two African Journals: Congo Journey and Convoy to West Africa - Softcover

Greene, Graham

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099529025 ISBN 13: 9780099529026

Publisher: Vintage Classics, 2011

Synopsis

To Graham Greene, 'Africa will always be the Africa of the Victorian atlas, the blank unexplored continent the shape of the human heart.' IN SEARCH OF A CHARACTER contains two African notebooks: Congo Journal, which records Graham Greene's travels in 1959, and his stay at the Yonda leper colony in the jungle which inspired the story for A Burnt-Out Case. Convoy to West Africa describes Greene's voyage in a cargo boat during the Second World War, from Liverpool to Freetown, Sierra Leone, the setting for THE HEART OF THE MATTER.

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To Graham Greene, 'Africa' will always be the Africa of the Victorian atlas, the unexplored continent, the shape of the human heart.

In Search of a Character contains two African notebooks: Congo Journal records Graham Greene's travels early in 1959, centering on his stay at the Yonda leper colony in the jungle where he researched and brooded on the beginnings of the story that became A Burnt-Out Case. Convoy to West Africa describes Greene's voyage in a cargo boat during the Second World War, from Liverpool to Freetown, Sierra Leone, the setting for The Heart of the Matter.

All Graham Greene's finest novels contain elements of reportage and In Search of a Character, a vivid portrait of Greene's Africa, also provides a wonderful glimpse of the novelist responding to the raw material of his art.

About the Author:

Graham Greene was born in 1904. He worked as a journalist and critic, and in 1940 became literary editor of the Spectator. He was later employed by the Foreign Office. As well as his many novels, Graham Greene wrote several collections of short stories, four travel books, six plays, three books of autobiography, two of biography and four books for children. He also wrote hundreds of essays, and film and book reviews. Graham Greene was a member of the Order of Merit and a Companion of Honour. He died in April 1991.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Classics
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0099529025
• ISBN 13: 9780099529026
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128