(精选)英美短篇小 说Unit 8 Across the bridge课件.pptVIP

——Graham Greene;Graham Greene;Graham Greene; As a writer Greene was very prolific and versatile. Many of his novels are based on his own experiences as an agent in the British Foreign Office. The Asian settings also stimulated Greene’s many novels. He wrote 5 dramas and screenplays for several films based on his novels. Greene’s film reviews are still worth reading and often better than the film he praised or slashed. Although Greene knew that some critics considered his novels entertainment, his own models were Henry James, Joseph Conrad, and Ford Madox Ford. In his personal library was a large collection of James’s work.; Perhaps the ultimate moralist thriller-writer, Greene had a facility for combing literary observation with populist plot, and himself divided his books into serious fiction and “entertainments”. Evelyn Waugh, also a famous English writer, singled out for praise the new coolly cinematic quality of his style, but he is now most known for a sort of atheistic Catholicism. ; Aside from his exotic trips, Greene’s also achieved notoriety in his personal life. Greene’s financial success as an author enabled him to live very comfortably in London, Antibes, and Capri. Towards the end of his life, Greene lived in Vevey, Switzerland with his companion Yvonne Cloetta. He died there peacefully on April 3, 1991. ;Novels: Brighton Rock (1938) The Power and the Glory (1940) The Heart of the Matter (1948) The Third Man (1950) The End of the Affair (1951) Novels set in sites of topical journalistic interest: The Quiet American (1955) a prescient account of early American involvement in Vietnam; Our Man in Havana (1958), set in Cuba; A Burnt-Out Case (1961), in the Belgian Congo just before its independence; The Comedians (1966), in Fran?ois Duvaliers Haiti; and The Captain and the Enemy (1980), in Panama. Plays The Living Room (1953) The Potting Shed (1957) ;Introduction of the story ; Two detectives enter the villa