A revealing article from Prospect magazine reappraising the
work of Graham Greene.
Quote on Greene's debt to HB:
"Greene did not completely give up genre, however, or the
pleasures of its seamy side. (His escapes from England also
gave him personal opportunity for mild sexual and narcotic
indulgence.) Some critics lamented his continued use of
hard-boiled techniques. John Lehmann, reviewing The Quiet
American in 1956 wrote, "I also regret a rather obtrusive
element of monotony in his style, the almost unvarying
tight-lipped curtness of dialogue and comment; a mannerism
which seems to me to be carried so far at times that it
recalls the American school of tough thriller-writers, and
would indeed be more in keeping with their quite differently
aimed productions."
http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/ArticleView.asp?link=yes&P_Article=12827
Back to lurking,
Michael
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