The Captain and the Enemy (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Graham Greene
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: Approximately 1967-1977
- Setting: London and Panama
- Principal Characters: Victor Baxter, Captain, Claridge, Carver, Liza, Baxter, Aunt Muriel, Cyril “Fred” Quigley, Pablo, Colonel Martínez
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, 1960’s, 1970’s, Adolescence, Love or romance, Crime or criminals, Twentieth century, Espionage or spies, Central America or Central Americans, Innocence
- Locales: London, England, Panama
In his autobiographical volume Ways of Escape (1980), Graham Greene observed that since the 1960's his work has steadily moved from the tragic intensities of his “Catholic novels” (written between 1938 and 1961) toward what he called the “tragicomic region of La Mancha where I expect to stay.” In the works of this “late” phase of Greene's career, theological issues were no longer so centrally focused as they had been in earlier novels such as The Power and the Glory (1940) and The Heart of the Matter (1948). Politics, particularly involving the...
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See Also:
Graham Greene (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Graham Greene (Dictionary of World Biography)Graham Greene (Drama)Graham Greene (Long Fiction)Graham Greene (Mystery and Detective Fiction)Graham Greene (Short Fiction)
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