Concetti Chiave
- Graham Greene was a prolific novelist who explored diverse themes, including human nature and existential issues within Catholicism.
- His writing style is characterized by realism, multiple narrative perspectives, and non-chronological storytelling with flashbacks and digressions.
- "The End of the Affair" revolves around a love triangle post-World War II, with the story unfolding through personal reflections and a discovered diary.
- Central themes include faith, personal responsibility, and the inner conflicts of characters like Maurice and Sarah as they navigate love and moral dilemmas.
- The novel offers open-ended interpretations, engaging readers in exploring the complexities of love, faith, and human choices.
1926 → conversion to Catholicism.
He was a very prolific novelist, he wrote about 30 novels, he wrote also plays, essay about criticism and travel novel.
Topic novelist: he is interested in the events of the moment when he lives, so different subjects (2^ World War, Vietnam War)
- Themes: The main theme is the exploring of human nature, he presents the inner world of his character, in particular there is a group of novels, called “religious novels”.
In this novels he presents characters facing existential problems because they confront themselves with the issues of Catholicism and they make choices in contrast with their human desires. They also have personal responsibility, because their choices have consequences on other persons.- Style: There is no sperimentalism. There is realism, because the novels are clearly understood by the reader. The narration is given by different voices, so we have different points of view of reality. There are partial interpretations of reality and also the reader is involved in giving his own interpretation. The time of the narration is not chronological, but there are a lot of flash-backs and digressions.
Sarah made a promise to God, asking him to save Maurice in changing of stopping their love relationship and she is maintaining faithful to the vote. Sarah is ill, she died for pheumanjal. In the end Henry and Maurice make stronger their friendship.
- The characters:
Maurice: He is a man in trouble, because he is still in love with Sarah, he is jealous and he hates everybody, Sarah, Henry and God. He remains unresolved.
Sarah: She is in trouble too, because isn’t easy for her to remain faithful to the vote. She still loves Maurice and she lives in agony. Her choice in painful but, as she has the Faith, she is sure that she made the right choice. So in the novel is compared with a saint and Mary Magdalene. In the end the interpretation is open and the reader can elaborate his personal view point idea.
Domande da interrogazione
- Quali sono i temi principali esplorati nei romanzi di Graham Greene?
- Come viene presentato lo stile narrativo nei romanzi di Greene?
- Qual è la trama principale de "The End of the Affair"?
- Come sono caratterizzati Maurice e Sarah nel romanzo "The End of the Affair"?
I temi principali nei romanzi di Graham Greene includono l'esplorazione della natura umana e i conflitti esistenziali dei personaggi, spesso in relazione con il Cattolicesimo e le scelte che contrastano con i desideri umani.
Lo stile narrativo di Greene è realistico, senza sperimentalismo, con narrazioni date da diverse voci e punti di vista. Il tempo non è cronologico, con frequenti flashback e digressioni.
Dopo la Seconda Guerra Mondiale, Maurice Bendrix, un romanziere, incontra il marito della sua amante Sarah. Maurice è ancora innamorato di Sarah e attraverso il diario di lei scopre che ha fatto un voto a Dio per salvare Maurice, rinunciando al loro amore.
Maurice è un uomo tormentato, ancora innamorato di Sarah, geloso e irrisolto. Sarah è in difficoltà nel mantenere il suo voto, vive in agonia ma è sicura della sua scelta grazie alla sua fede, paragonata a una santa o a Maria Maddalena.
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