Agent secret (l')

Graham Greene was always deeply interested in the role played by the subconscious in his writing, and the private world of his dreams was one that he nurtured carefully, recording it almost daily in his dream diaries.  Selecting from these dream diaries, he prepared this small treasure for publication just before his death in 1991—a last gift from a great writer to delight and entertain his readers.Graham Greene regarded dreams as central to his life and creativity, and between 1965 and 1989 he kept a dream diary. In this book, which contains his own selections from that diary, Greene gives us access to the private world of his dreams, a fascinating record of another 'sort of life'.'His life, his dreams and his fiction are equally exciting... These privileged experiences make his dreams paradoxically accessible: his portraits of the great, whether they offer strange pyschological insights (Andropov's withered right hand), vengeful irony ( W.H. Auden as a guerrilla fighter) or mere defacement (T. S. Eliot with a moustache), have the unusual effect of a sort of impartial satire' - Mick Imlah in the Independent on Sunday'This little book . . . honours what in so many other ways Greene honoured in his long lifetime of writing: the value of mystery. It is that . . . that lifts it from the personal and the particular to a universal level of interest' - William Trevor in the Spectator'Greene's dream-world is recognizably a version of the world of his novels or, to put it another way, this book might be seen as his last exercise, slight but graceful and fetching, in the art of fiction - which is not to suggest that as a record it is the least untruthful' - C. K. Stead in the London Review of Books'Enchanting, moving, touched by the remains of a faith that had pretty well vanished, but pervaded throughout by a compelling sense of fun' - John Preston in the Sunday Telegraph

Mon univers secret

Graham Greene prétend, dans la préface de cet ouvrage, qu'on ne peut essayer de tromper son médecin, son avocat, ou son confesseur. C'est pourquoi le Docteur Georges Rosanoff, médecin pendant plus de trente ans de l'hôpital anglo-américain de Nice, en a vu et entendu de toutes les couleurs... En effet, princes arabes, milliardaires américains, célébrités politiques ou littéraires, stars et vedettes internationales, résidents ou de passage sur la Côte d'Azur, comptèrent parmi les patient du Dr Rosanoff qui, sans trahir le secret professionnel, nous présente dans cet ouvrage ses souvenirs et de nombreuses anecdotes vécues « parfois drôles, parfois tristes, terrifiantes aussi » qui dévoilent un côté peu connu de nombreuses personnalités qu'il a soignées. Une partie de ce livre est, en outre, consacrée à la vie secrète de la Riviéra pendant l'Occupation et la Libération. L'ensemble de cet ouvrage ne pourra manquer de passionner lecteurs et lectrices.

Racontez... docteur ! - Un demi-siècle de souvenirs et d'anecdotes vécues

Nouvelles

In 1938 Graham Greene went to Mexico to investigate the aftermath of the brutal anti-clerical purges. Travelling through the tropical states of Chiapas and Tabasco, where all the churches had been closed or destroyed and the priests driven away or shot, he found an oppressed and impoverished people having to worship in secret. His experiences in Mexico provided the setting and theme for one of his greatest novels, The Power and the Glory.

Routes sans lois

Pinkie Brown, jeune bandit de dix-sept ans à la cruauté sadique et au charme envoûtant, est prêt à tout pour venger le meurtre de Kite, le chef de son gang... y compris à épouser Rose, serveuse naïve et sans grâce. Son but est d'empêcher la jeune fille de témoigner contre lui dans l'affaire de la disparition d'un journaliste soupçonné d'avoir assassiné Kite. Lorsque Ida Arnold, séduite par le journaliste juste avant sa disparition, décide de stopper les agissements meurtriers de Pinkie, une course contre la montre s'engage.

Rocher de Brighton

Raven is an ugly man dedicated to ugly deeds. His cold-blooded killing of a European Minister of War is an act of violence with chilling repercussions, not just for Raven himself but for the nation as a whole. The money he receives in payment for the murder is made up of stolen notes and when the first of these is traced, Raven becomes a man on the run. As he tracks down the agent who has been double-crossing him and attempts to elude the police, he becomes both hunter and hunted: an unwitting weapon of a strange kind of social justice. In doing so, he sets the stage for Greene’s next novel, Brighton Rock. This Penguin Classics edition features an introduction by Samuel Hynes.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Tueur À Gages

Ce n'est pas uniquement l'attirance pour l'inconnu, le pittoresque ou l'insolite, qui incite l'écrivain anglais Graham Greene à se rendre avec sa cousine, en 1936, au Libéria, sur le golfe de Guinée. Cette aventure est avant tout un voyage intérieur et un retour revigorant à la nature. Dans la pratique, l'entreprise présente un certain nombre de difficultés à commencer par celle de se repérer, sans cartes puisqu'il n'en existe aucune de fiable. Il faut aussi déjouer les maladies, les fauves, les serpents, dormir dans des cases...Telle est l'expérience extraordinaire et enrichissante que Graham Greene relate avec humour dans ce Voyage sans cartes.

Voyage sans cartes

D. est chargé de négocier un achat de charbon vital pour l'économie de son pays et la victoire de son parti. Mais sur le bateau qui le conduit à Douvres, il repère l'agent L., son principal concurrent...

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