![]() ![]() ![]() Greene’s publisher specifically paid for his trip to Mexico for this purpose in 1938. In this novel the focus is on anti-clericalism in Mexico in the 1930’s. Greene hit his literary stride in writing set in these destitute countries marked by starvation, disease, political tyranny, graft and corruption. This one, The Power and the Glory, was based on his travels in Mexico in 1938 The Comedians, Haiti A Burnt Out Case, the Congo Our Man in Havana, Cuba, and The Heart of the Matter, Sierra Leone. (Third World at least at the time Greene visited: Mexico and Africa in the 1930’s and 1940’s Haiti, Cuba and the Congo in the 1950’s.) Greene’s travels around the world (including a stint as a British spy in WW II) informed many of his novels. ![]() Like many other Greene novels, this one is set in a down-and-out environment in a Third World country. I mention that because this book is one of his four novels, which, according to Wiki, source of all wisdom, “are the gold standard of the Catholic novel.” The other three are Brighton Rock, The Heart of the Matter, and The End of the Affair. Graham Greene is known as a “Catholic novelist” even though he objected to that description. ![]()
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