Comedians (Paperback: Reprint: 320 pages)

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Introduction by:Paul Theroux
Author:Greene Graham
Format:Paperback: Reprint: 320 pages.
Publisher:Penguin Classics (01/31/2005)
ISBN:0143039199
ISBN13:9780143039198
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  • Enhanced Muze Note

    This new novel, [Greene's] tenth, bears no trace of slackening or diminution, it is not an old hand's brewing up--though the hand admittedly is very cunning--the mixture as before; it is instead a work of strength and freshness, and in its core there lies the steel coil of compulsion....The book is rich in incident and situations, deceptively seamless, switches from glimpse to briefer glimpse, revelation to set scene....Read in cold blood, out of immediate reach of violence, the message appears one of ultimate resignation, perhaps despair....'The Comedians' is a fine and important novel, and a very moving one.

  • Enhanced Muze Note

    What is so wrong with the new book, what makes it so lacking in energy and conviction is the failure of the possessional element to operate in any but the most mechanical manner, the failure, really, of Greene's bias toward despair and moral isolation as his only fertile ground to exert its crooken, idiosyncratic, saving force. In one sense his most 'optimistic' book, certainly his most socially and politically engaged, [it] is at the same time so devitalized, so merely professional, so much a matter of imaginative reflexes serving for exploration and crowding out its possibility, as to constitute something approaching an artistic disaster.

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  • Three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, a world in the grip of the corrupt aPapa Doca and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret police. Brown the hotelier, Smith the innocent American, and Jones the confidence manathese are the acomediansa of Greeneas title. Hiding behind their actorsa masks, they hesitate on the edge of life. They are men afraid of love, afraid of pain, afraid of fear itself...

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