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The heart of matter by graham greene5/19/2023 ![]() But Scobie is more than a man victimized by a sun too strong for The author's protagonist, Henry Scobie (who is both a model police inspector and a colonial Englishman in microcosm), had had no leave in years. This could be any outpost of Empire where vultures roost on the roof-trees at noon, and the slightest scratch turns green in an hour without the saving iodine - where there is no antidote for a climate-ridden psyche, if a man "stays Greene has chosen a carefully unnamed spot on Africa's coastline as his backdrop: we are told merely that it adjoins Vichy-held territory across one of its sluggish, tan-colored rivers, that the time is the wrong end of World War II. ![]() From first page to last, this record of one man's breakdown on a heat-drugged fever-coast makes its point as a crystal-clear allegory - and as an engrossing novel. Knows) is a profound moralist with a technique to match his purpose. It is a pleasure to report that Graham Greene, in "The Heart of the Matter," has wrestled brilliantly with all three - and scored three clean falls. ![]() And man's debt to man will be forever in arrears - from West Africa to the West End, from Brooklyn to Bucharest. The white (and dark) man's burden must always be heavy. ![]() JA Searching Novel of Man's Unpaid Debt to Man By WILLIAM DU BOISĪ policeman's lot is not a happy one. A Searching Novel of Man's Unpaid Debt to Man ![]()
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