Graham Greene Studies, Volume 1

Stavick and Wise: Graham Greene Studies, Volume 1 Graham Greene Studies Volume 1, 2017 Graham Greene Birthplace Trust University of North Georgia Press Published by Nighthawks Open Institutional Repository, 2017 1 Graham Greene Studies, Vol. 1 [2017], Art. 1 Editors: Joyce Stavick and Jon Wise Editorial Board: Digital Editors: Jon Mehlferber Associate Editors: Ethan Howard Kayla Mehalcik Published by: University of North Georgia Press Dahlonega, Georgia The University of North Georgia Press is a teaching press, providing a service-learning environment for students to gain real life experiences in publishing and marketing. The entirety of the layout and design of this volume was created and executed by Ethan Howard, a student at the University of North Georgia. Cover Photo Courtesy of Bernard Diederich For more information, please visit: http://digitalcommons.northgeorgia.edu/ggs/ Copyright © 2017 by University of North Georgia Press. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in whole or in part without written permission from the publisher, except by reviewers who may quote brief excerpts in connection with a review in newspaper, magazine, or electronic publications; nor may any part of this book be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or other without the written permission from the publisher. Printed in the United States of America, 2017 https://digitalcommons.northgeorgia.edu/ggs/vol1/iss1/1 2 Stavick and Wise: Graham Greene Studies, Volume 1 In Memory of David R.A. Pearce, scholar, poet, and friend David Pearce was born in Whitstable in 1938. That Kentish coastline was, in the early war years, under threat; and for a while, as a small child, he was an evacuee in Cornwall. After school at St Edmund’s, Canterbury, and then St Edmund Hall, Oxford, he taught at Stanbridge Earls, Hampshire, and then, for thirty-three years at Berkhamsted School where he was Head of English and a boarding housemaster. He was a joint-founder of the Graham Greene Birthplace Trust, and, through that, rejoiced in friends all round the world. The importance of his family life and other interests may be deduced from his poems, most recently those published in his volume, The Street, 2016, Mountain Arbor Press. Published by Nighthawks Open Institutional Repository, 2017 3 Graham Greene Studies, Vol. 1 [2017], Art. 1 Contents Page No. Introduction.....................................................................................................................Joyce Stavick and Jon Wise vii Articles Reflections…..…………………………………………………………………………….....................................………Judith Adamson 1 Shades of Greene in Catholic Literary Modernism………………………………..…………...................…Mark Bosco 8 Figures in Greene’s Carpet: The Power & the Glory to Monsignor Quixote…………….....................…….………........Robert M. Davis 24 Graham Greene’s Books for Children……………………………………………..........................……........François Gallix 39 Graham Greene & the Congo, 1959: Personal Memories and Background of A Burnt-Out Case……….............……..…........Michel Lechat 46 The Furthest Escape Of All: Darkness And Refuge In The Belgian Congo........…….….............…..........................Michael Meeuwis 56 “Memory Cheats”: Deception, Recollection and the Problem of Reading in The Captain and the Enemy……………….…………………………….............………….........Frances McCormack 82 Graham Greene in Love and War: French Indochina and the Making of The Quiet American……....…………………......……Kevin Ruane 97 “The Invisible Japanese Gentleman”: Graham Greene’s Literary Influence in Japan……...........…….………………...............……Motonori Sato 110 “All Writers are Equal but Some Writers are More Equal than Others”: Some Reflections on Links and Contrasts Between Graham Greene and George Orwell…………................……………...................……………………Neil Sinyard 122 Darkest Greeneland: Brighton Rock…………………………….............……………......………………………..Cedric Watts 133 Features Travels with Graham Greene………......…………………………………….............………………………….Bernard Diederich 145 In Greene’s Footprints, Red and Black Greenes of St. Kitts, Stolichnaya for a Bon Blan Traveling in Greeneland……......………………………………………………………………………………...............Quentin Falk 158 Dr. Fischer of Geneva or There’s so Much More to Christmas Crackers………......................David Pearce 163 Book Review Jon Wise and Mike Hill: The Works of Graham Greene Volume 2: The Graham Greene Archives…………….....……….......................………………..............…..Judith Adamson 178 The Ritz.................………………………………………………….......………………………………………….............…Graham Greene 181 Call for Papers................................................................................................................................................... 183 https://digitalcommons.northgeorgia.edu/ggs/vol1/iss1/1 4 Stavick and Wise: Graham Greene Studies, Volume 1 Page Maps and Illustrations No. Map of Greene’s Travel in Africa, 1959............................................................................................. 60 Map of Mission Stations along Greene’s 1959 journey in Africa...................................................... 77 Photo of Greene, Phat Diem, 1951.................................................................................................... 99 Photo of Greene with French maintenance crew, 1951.................................................................... 100 Photo of Greene with French troops, Phat Diem, 1951.................................................................... 102 Photo of Bishop Le Huu Tu, 1951...................................................................................................... 102 Note of Dedication by Tu to Greene................................................................................................... 102 Photos of Greene at Orphanage, Phat Diem, 1951............................................................................ 107 Published by Nighthawks Open Institutional Repository, 2017 5 Graham Greene Studies, Vol. 1 [2017], Art. 1 Acknowledgements: Many people have contributed to the production of Graham Greene Studies; our thanks to those at the University of North Georgia who helped with editing and production: BJ Robinson, Corey Parson, Amy Beard, Jon Mehlferber, Allison Galloup, Kayla Mehalcik, Ethan Howard, and Brian Corrigan. Thanks also to members of the Graham Greene Birthplace Trust who helped with publicity and correspondence: Giles Clark and Mike Hill. Finally, our thanks to Bernard Diederich and the family of David Pearce for permission to print photos. https://digitalcommons.northgeorgia.edu/ggs/vol1/iss1/1 6 Stavick and Wise: Graham Greene Studies, Volume 1 vii Introduction Indeed, this inaugural volume is, in Introduction effect, a tribute to the achievements of the Graham Greene International Festival. The Welcome to the first volume of articles are drawn from a variety of past Graham Greene Studies. papers delivered at one or other of these events. Because of the festival’s reputa- Graham Greene Studies is an interna- tion, the festival organizers have been able tional, peer-reviewed and disseminated to draw upon a rich variety of speakers: journal of scholarly research pertaining to academics, peers of the British realm, celeb- the life and work of Graham Greene. It will rities, fellow writers, and other individuals be published biennially. The intention is to from the UK and abroad who have had a provide a forum for academic study and at connection to Greene, each of whom has the same time to appeal to as wide an audi- contributed richly to our knowledge of the ence as possible, reflecting the very active, man and his work. international interest which continues to be As editors, we freely acknowledge that we shown in the work of this writer. The jour- are not the first to have sought to publish a nal will establish a venue for disseminating Graham Greene journal. Dangerous Edges research, book and film reviews, and other of Graham Greene: Journeys with Saints original scholarship germane to the study of and Sinners (London: Continuum, 2011), Graham Greene. edited by Dermot Gilvary and Darren J. N. The project was conceived by Professor Middleton, is a fine collection of seventeen Joyce Stavick, Department Head, English, such essays. In its earlier years, the GGBT at the University of North Georgia. Pro- also published a series of monographs con- fessor Stavick’s successful mission to secure sisting of verbatim texts of key lectures. the go-ahead for this project is based on an Audio and video recordings have also been on-going concern that there is at present no made at most of the Festivals; together, academic journal dedicated to this major these constitute a substantial resource for 20th Century writer of international acclaim. researchers. Details about access and fur- Professor Stavick’s co-editor, Dr. Jonathan ther information can be obtained from the Wise, is a Trustee of the Graham Greene GGBT Secretary through the Trust website Birthplace Trust (GGBT) and co-author of www.grahamgreenebt.org . a critically acclaimed, two-volume bibliog- The papers which make up this first raphy of the works of Graham Greene. The edition of the journal arrived at the edi- University of North Georgia’s partnership tors’ desks in a wide variety of formats. with the GGBT acknowledges the contri- Circumstances demanded that some had bution made by the Trust over the

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