![]() ![]() ![]() The Heart of the Matter is set in Sierra Leone, and based on Greene's own time there with the military. He loved to write about strange and exotic places-so much that they call the locations of his books "Greeneland" collectively-but his heroes always seem to have singularly religious struggles that transcend the peculiarity of location. ![]() But as the best writers cannot help but let their own souls trickle out onto the page, it really is impossible to separate Greene's Catholicism, conflicted but deeply felt, from his writing. ![]() Greene loathed being called a Catholic writer, and preferred to be thought of as a writer and a Catholic-or a Catholic and a writer. Graham Greene month continues with a book written by the most Greene-like of writers, Graham Greene. If one knew, he wondered, the facts, would one have to feel pity even for the planets? if one reached what they called the heart of the matter? The lights inside would have given an extraordinary impression of peace if one hadn't known, just as the stars on this clear night gave also an impression of remoteness, security, freedom. ![]()
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