This expansive and compelling literary biography details the many trips to Spain and Portugal that Graham Greene took in the last years of his life in the company of his friend, the priest and professor Leopoldo Durán. It shows how these trips provided the inspiration for Monsignor Quixote (1982), which became Greene's favourite of his own novels.
This expansive and compelling literary biography details the many trips to Spain and Portugal that Graham Greene took in the last years of his life in the company of his friend, the priest and professor Leopoldo Durán. It shows how these trips provided the inspiration for Monsignor Quixote (1982), which became Greene's favourite of his own novels.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Carlos Villar Flor teaches English Literature at the University of La Rioja, with a particular interest in twentieth-century British and Irish novelists. His scholarly works include critical editions and Spanish translations of several Evelyn Waugh novels, a monograph on Waugh's characterization strategies (1997), a study of the literary impact in Britain of the Jacobean route (2006, with M.L. Lazaro), and a review of various written accounts of the Irish Brigade who fought in the Spanish Civil War (2021) David Stephen studied modern languages at Cambridge. He retired from the United Nations in 2004 and now lives in Norfolk.
Inhaltsangabe
* Introduction * 1: The priest who invited Greene: the life of Leopoldo Durán before 1975 * 2: The travels: a day-by-day account * 3: The years of friendship with Greene (1976-1991) * 4: On the track of Murrieta: Decline and fall of the Graham Greene Foundation * 5: To tell or not to tell: Writing Friend and Brother * 6: The final years of Leopoldo Durán * Conclusions: The spy who came to La Mancha * Bibliography * Index
* Introduction * 1: The priest who invited Greene: the life of Leopoldo Durán before 1975 * 2: The travels: a day-by-day account * 3: The years of friendship with Greene (1976-1991) * 4: On the track of Murrieta: Decline and fall of the Graham Greene Foundation * 5: To tell or not to tell: Writing Friend and Brother * 6: The final years of Leopoldo Durán * Conclusions: The spy who came to La Mancha * Bibliography * Index
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