Book Review 071 / The End of the Affair / Mr. Greene's Intense Art

The End of the Affair

by Graham Greene

1951

Mr. Greene's Intense Art

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The 100 best novels / No 71 / The End of the Affair by Graham Greene (1951)

By GEORGE MAYBERRY
October 28, 1951

THE END OF THE AFFAIR By Graham Greene THE ART OF GRAHAM GREENE By Kenneth Allott and Miriam Farris

t 47, Graham Greene is one of England's most important practicing novelists. He is also a prominent Roman Catholic layman. A convert in his middle-twenties, he has never become orthodox; it must come as a surprise to many readers encountering his books for the first time to discover that this adroit storyteller has involved himself and his audience with some of the more complex problems that arise from the clash of dogma and drama. His attempt to divide his many works of fiction into the categories of novels ("Brighton Rock," "The Power and the Glory" and "The Heart of the Matter") and entertainments ("The Ministry of Fear" and "The Third Man") has done little to enable one to separate the writer from his theology.