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Article: A Study in Greene: Graham Greene and the Art of the Novel.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- July 1, 2008
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A Study in Greene: Graham Greene and the Art of the Novel. By BERNARD BERGONZI. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2006. xi+197 pp. 16.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-19-929102-1.
Feelings of missed opportunity are endemic in Greeneland, but more might have been done to expunge them from this study, even through better copy-editing. The hero of Our Man in Havana appears throughout as 'Wormald', and Bergonzi draws attention to the name 'Coral', in Stamboul Train, only to transpose it as 'Carol' within a few lines. He also emphasizes the importance of The End of the Affair for his reading of Greene, then omits it altogether from a concluding list of the novels.
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