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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.912
EAN: 9780142437995
ISBN: 0142437999
Label: Penguin Classics
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: September 28, 2004
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Release Date: September 28, 2004
Sales Rank: 167736
Studio: Penguin Classics
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With a new introduction by James Wood
Scobie, a police officer serving in a wartime west-African state, is distrusted — being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in so doing, he is forced to betray everything he believes in, with drastic and tragic consequences.
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Graham Greene does something in The Heart of the Matter which is extremely difficult to do: he depicts the inner turmoil and emotional breakdown of a human being in a non-pretentious, non-self-conscious, completely BELIEVABLE way.
So many other allegedly great authors have tried to do the same thing, with very few successes. Most often you get turgid "prose" which reeks of pseudo-intellectual showboating, turning the character in question from a flesh-and-blood entity into a cipher, ... Read More
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The setting for Greene's novel, although never named, is Sierra Leone, where the author himself spent some time as an intelligence officer. But law enforcement, subterfuge, and colonialism serve as mere (if occasionally satiric) sideshows for the crisis of faith of one well-meaning, upright policeman, Scobie, whose fatal flaw is a sometimes-misguided sympathy for those closest to him.
Even Scobie's troubled relationship with his wife is described early on as one in which "pity and responsibility ... Read More
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What most struck me was the sense of isolation and despair (and removal from God) that one human being can effect in himself through a series of acts that create value conflicts that cannot be easily remedied once certain events have occurred. The planning of a suicide and the carrying out of said suicide were described without any romance but also in a way that I perceive as an accurate portrayal of one who is intent on pulling off the "real deal." In that I would say this is a masterful work of fiction, but ... Read More
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Henry "Ticki" Scobie at first leads a sanguine life, runs into a life stupified by languishing heat to the point of frequently experiencing torpor, and ultimately succumbs to common human frailties, including one of the greatest sins.
Like the unnamed priest in Graham's classic "The Power and the Glory", Scobie's character lives in a secluded third world country as an expatriate worker; is a foreigner in a foreign land involved with war, and holds a position of authority observed with dignity by ... Read More
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This was Greene's first book I read. Some time ago I had come across the review of part 3 of Norman Sherry's biography on Greene in the New York Times. What caught my eye was his voracious appetite for sex and having a list of 41 favorite prostitutes. From his novels one gets the impression he encouraged frequenting brothels, as some of his characters usually end up there. Many of Greene's novels are imbued with religion and aimed at moral issues facing human beings. His protagonists commit suicide to save others ... Read More
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