Bookmark: Graham Greene

This week's pick for Bookmark is Henry Graham Greene, an English author, playwright and literary critic, known for his works like Brighton Rock, The End of The Affair and Monsignor Quixote among many others.

Umapagan Ampikaipakan sheds some light on this somewhat contrary character, who was described in The Nation as a "devout Catholic, lifelong adulterer, pulpy hack, canonical novelist; self-destructive, meticulously disciplined, deliriously romantic, bitterly cynical; moral relativist, strict theologian, salon communist, closet monarchist; civilized to a stuffy fault and louche to drugged-out distraction, anti-imperialist crusader and postcolonial parasite, self-excoriating and self-aggrandizing, to name just a few.