Greene on Capri
A Autobiography, Biography, History book. I bought this book while planning my trip to Capri. Loved the...
When friends die, one's own credentials change: one becomes a survivor. Graham Greene has already had biographers, one of whom has served him mightily. Yet I hope that there is room for the remembrance of a friend who knew him-not wisely, perhaps, but fairly well-on an island that was "not his kind of place," but where he came season after season, year after year; and where he, too, will be subsumed into the capacious story.For millennia the cliffs of Capri have sheltered pleasure-seekers and refugees alike, among them the emperors Augustus and Tiberius, Henry James, Rilke, and Lenin, and hosts of artists, eccentrics, and outcasts. Here in the 1960s Graham Greene became friends with Shirley Hazzard and her husband, the writer Francis Steegmuller; their friendship lasted until Greene's death in 1991. In Greene on Capri, Hazzard uses their ever volatile intimacy as a prism through which to illuminate Greene's mercurial character, his work and...
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- Pages: 160 pages
- ISBN: 9780374527778 / 374527776
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Shirley Hazzard has written about famous author Graham Greene.She quotes Cyril Connolly in trying to explain the urges that compelled Greene to travel as he did. I took note of it 'between the flight of the expatriate which is an essential desire for simplification ... and the brisker trajectory of the travel addict, trying not to find... I bought this book while planning my trip to Capri. Loved the trip but didn't get through the book I was torn on this one. It's an Elaine 4, and probably an anyone else 3. I have a passion for Southern Italian islands and tales of expat life in a golden age that whenever it was was before my time. More importantly, Shirley Hazzard and Graham Greene are two of a very small pantheon of literary gods that I absolutely worship. So, it's...
