Search for faith In Graham greene s Novels with Special Reference to the Heart of the Matter and the power and the Glory

Abstract

Graham Greene, (1904-1991) the son of C.H. Greene, was born on the 2nd October, 1904 in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire the fourth of six children. He disliked sports. After graduating with a second class degree in history, Greene unsuccessfully took up Journalism, first on the Nittingham Journal, and then as a sub-editor on The Times. While in Nottingham he started corresponding with Vivien Dayrell-Browning, a Catholic convert, who had written him to correct him on a point of Catholic doctrine. Greene converted to Catholicism in 1926 (described in A Sort of Life) and was baptized in February the same year. He married Vivien in 1927; and they had two children Lucy (b. 1933) and Francis (b. 1936). In 1948 Greene abandoned Vivien. He had affairs with a number of women, yet remained married. newlineGreene suffered from bipolar disorder which had a profound effect on his writing and personal life. In a letter to his wife Vivien he told her that he had a character profoundly antagonistic to ordinary domestic life , and that unfortunately, the disease is also one s material. Graham Greene is considered one of the most versatile novelists of his time. He is a great British novelist, playwright, short-story writer, travel writer and critic whose works explore the ambivalent moral and political issues of the modern world. Greene combined serious literary acclaim with wide popularity. Although Greene objected strongly to being described as a Catholic novelist rather than novelist who happed to be Catholic. newlineCatholic religious themes are at the root of many of his novels, including Brighton Rock, The Heart of the Matter, The End of the Affair, Monsignor Quixote, A Burnt-out Case and his famous work The Power and the Glory. Novel and entertainment are the two terms which he himself used to differentiate his serious fiction from his light fiction. The term novel thus refers to his serious works of fiction and entertainment describes his light works in the same field. But the distinction is somewhat arbitrary. newline