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WHICH IS THE BEST GRAHAM GREENE NOVEL?
I'm having an internal argument/discussion as to which is the very best Graham Greene novel. Which do you think is the best--and what's the criteria you used in deciding "best?" Favorite? most re-read? Most powerful?
For instance, my favorite Greene is The Comedians. I like the setting (Haiti) the politics, the affair, the tremendously creepy political mood and how landscape reinforces it. Reread it every couple of years.
However, the one that just seared into my soul, the one that kept me from being able to even go about my daily life, was The Power and the Glory, the one set during the anti-religious persecutions of the Mexican Revolution. I've never reread it, it hit me so hard.
So I have to say
The Power and the Glory.
For instance, my favorite Greene is The Comedians. I like the setting (Haiti) the politics, the affair, the tremendously creepy political mood and how landscape reinforces it. Reread it every couple of years.
However, the one that just seared into my soul, the one that kept me from being able to even go about my daily life, was The Power and the Glory, the one set during the anti-religious persecutions of the Mexican Revolution. I've never reread it, it hit me so hard.
So I have to say
The Power and the Glory.
