Description
Book SynopsisExamines the first and most prolific phase of Graham Greene's career, demonstrating the relationship between his fiction and the political, economic, social and literary contexts of the period. This volume examines some of Greene's best-known works including "Brighton Rock".
Trade Review"Conscientious and perceptive, Graham Greene's Thrillers and the 1930s engages theoretical and generic concerns that Greene scholarship has never before probed so fully." Keith Wilson, Department of English, University of Ottawa. "Diemert has new and interesting things to say about Greene's use of thrillers and other popular modes of fiction as models for his art." Bernard Bergonzi, Department of English, University of Warwick.
Table of ContentsGraham Greene and the 1930s; exploring the popular in two early novels - "Stamboul train" and "England made me"; aspects of detective fiction; approaches to the thriller in Greene's early work - "Rumour at nightfall" and "It's a battlefield"; thrillers of the 1930s - "A gun for sale", "Brighton Rock" and "The confidential agent"; the ministry of fear; the end of this affair - summing up.
