FORMS OF THE ARTISTIC CONVERSION OF GRAHAM GREENE’S FOREIGN IMPRESSIONS IN HIS SHORT STORIES
Journal Title: Наукові праці. Серія "Філологія. Літературознавство" - Year 2018, Vol 316, Issue 304
Abstract
The article studies a group of African short stories by Graham Greene, which consists of three works: his novella A Chance for Mr. Lever (1935), story The Other Side of the Border (1936) and humoresque Church militant (1953). They are named “African” according to the predominant chronotope, although their protagonists are Englishmen and a certain part of the events in these works, except Church militant, takes place in England. The purpose of the work is to identify how and in what ways the experience of foreign trips of Greene known as a tireless traveller who visited almost all continents, and the author of travel books Journey without maps (1936), The lawless roads: A Mexican journey (1939) and In search of a character: Two African journals (1961) is reflected in his short stories. In the course of the study, it is shown that mainly it concerns the specificity of the chronotope of the “African” short stories, the influence of travel impressions on the realism and authenticity of the reproduction of local colour and ethnographic details in the novella and stories, as well as on their problem and thematic range (the tragedy of human destiny in the conditions of the European economic crisis, the collapse of moral principles, the problem of social and divine injustice). The used principles of biographical, cultural, textual and structural analytical methods determined the scientific novelty of the research, introducing for the first time the topic of Graham Greene‟s small prose into the sphere of domestic literary criticism and posing the problem of the forms of artistic realization of the travel experiences of the writer and the specifics of their functioning in the structure of his short stories. The methods used and the results obtained can be applied in studies on the influence of the writer‟s transboundary experience on the expansion of his artistic consciousness and on his artistic creativity
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M. Al Ateya Mahmood
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