Introduction: Secret Sharer Why Do I Write?
Notes Introduction: secret sharer 1. Graham Greene, British Dramatists, London: Collins, 1942, p. 16. 2. John Le Carré, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, London: Victor Gollancz, 1963, p. 140. 3. Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier (1915), London: Penguin English Library, 1964, p. 122. 4. Donald Rayfield, Anton Chekhov: A Life, London: HarperCollins, 1997, p. 315. 5. This image was particularly popularised after the publication of The End of the Affair and through Kenneth Tynan’s profile of Greene in an issue of Harper’s Bazaar (February 1953). ‘Graham Greene has never been able to build up a resistance to sin,’ Tynan wrote. ‘. He looks retiringly pedantic, and sits hunched, with hands and knees crossed, peering out at the grey flux of circumstance with bright, moist, hopeless eyes . A man, you might suppose, who feels he has disappointed life as much as life has disappointed him: the impression he leaves, as he wanders rangily off along a crowded street, is one of acute solitariness.’ See Profiles, London: Nick Hern Books, 1989, pp. 51–7. 6. See John Atkins, Graham Greene, London: Calder & Boyars, 1957, p. 78. 7. See The Pleasure Dome, London: Secker & Warburg, 1972, pp. 144–5. 8. Tynan, p. 52. 9. A Sort of Life, London: Bodley Head, 1971, p. 127. 10. There is a useful chapter on the meaning of ‘Greeneland’ in Cedric Watts’s admirable introduction to the author, A Preface to Greene, London: Pearson Education Ltd, 1997, pp. 142–8. The origins of the term are generally attributed to a reference to ‘Greenland’ in a song Ann sings in Chapter 3 of A Gun for Sale; and to Arthur Calder-Marshall’s early essay on Greene in Horizon (May 1940) in which he talks of a territory called Greeneland that is characterised by seediness.
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