He aims to correct this oversight by meticulously documenting every step that Greene took, every diary entry he logged, and every letter he wrote to his wife and several mistresses concerning his many visits to Cuba and the writing and filming of his novel. Compared to “the Hemingway cult in Havana,” Greene’s “many visits to his preferred watering and feeding hole,” Hull laments, have gone unacknowledged. Drawing on Greene’s published and unpublished writings studies and biographies of Greene abundant archival material and his own 17 visits to Cuba, Hull sets Greene’s life amid Cuba’s tumultuous history. of Chester) minutely examines the plot, characters, context, creation, reception, filming, and afterlife of Greene’s 1958 satirical novel, Our Man in Havana. In his literary debut, Hull (Spanish & Latin American Studies/Univ. The enigmatic novelist Graham Greene (1904-1991) inspires a new investigation.
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