Research articles

This piece on Greene and the Exotic is taken from David Lodge’s 1992 book The Art of Fiction, a collection of articles originally published in The Independent on Sunday the year before in which he analysed a particular aspect of literary style in the context of an extract from an author’s work. Here Lodge discusses the opening of Greene’s 1948 novel The Heart of the Matter. A fine literary analyst as well as a brilliant novelist in his own right, Lodge’s The Art of Fiction is a perceptive and important book. (This article first appeared in A Sort of Newsletter,…

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In this article, Mike Hill explores Graham Greene’s last, short novel, The Captain and the Enemy (1988), something of an overlooked masterpiece. The story traverses Berkhamsted, Greene’s birthplace, London and then Panama, a country he came to know well late in life. However, when and under what circumstances the novel was written has always been something of a puzzle – but one that Mike sets out to solve. (This article first appeared in A Sort of Newsletter, the magazine of the Graham Greene Birthplace Trust edited by Mike Hill himself, in 2014. It is reproduced here with all requisite permissions).

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