Ways of Escape

[Betty]

Ways Of Escape-Actually Graham Greene's autobiography, the sequel to A Sort Of Life. The present chapter talks about Journey Without Maps, a more personal perspective into certain events in his and his cousin's youthful, trying trip to Liberia in the 1930s. Another topic in that chapter addresses his film reviewing, his ambivalent feelings towards talkies, and his libelous, published sentence about an American studio hiring a famous child actress. Greene necessarily connects with contemporary events, and in an engaging writing style. A glimpse of the person behind the writer.

[Betty]

The title "Ways of Escape" seems unusual for an autobiography of a very involved person in the solitary imagination and the major contemporary events. Perhaps, those involvements are what he is escaping--the hibernation and pills to earn a living as a writer as well as the awful events he faced as a foreign correspondent and world traveler in volatile regions of the world. What did he escape to? Maybe, the ritual & emotion in religious writings and practice.