Graham Greene

The Power and the Glory

Sprecher: Mayes, Bernard

• Audio CD

Produktbeschreibung

In a poor, remote section of southern Mexico, the Red Shirts have taken control. God has been outlawed, and the priests have been systematically hunted down and killed. Now, the last priest strives to overcome physical and moral cowardice in order to find redemption. Graham Greene explores corruption and atonement in this penetrating novel set in 1930s Mexico during the era of Communist religious persecutions. As revolutionaries determine to stamp out the evils of the church through violence, the last Roman Catholic priest is on the lam, hunted by a police lieutenant. Despite his own sense of worthlessness-he is a heavy drinker and has fathered an illegitimate child-he is determined to continue to function as a priest until captured. He is contrasted with Padre Jose, a priest who has accepted marriage and embodies humiliation. A Christian parable pitting God and religion against twentieth-century materialism, this is considered by many, including the author himself to be his best work.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blackstone Publishing
• Gesamtlaufzeit: 540 Min.
• Erscheinungstermin: Februar 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441704108
• Artikelnr.: 32449948

Autorenporträt

Graham Greene was born in 1904. He worked as a journalist and critic, and in 1940 became literary editor of the Spectator. He was later employed by the Foreign Office. As well as his many novels, Graham Greene wrote several collections of short stories, four travel books, six plays, three books of autobiography, two of biography and four books for children. He also wrote hundreds of essays, and film and book reviews. Graham Greene was a member of the Order of Merit and a Companion of Honour. He died in April 1991.

Rezensionen

The most ingenious, inventive and exciting of our novelists, rich in exactly etched and moving portraits of real human beings V. S. Pritchett