READ MY NEW BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF GRAHAM GREENE. Graham Greene, the brilliant novelist who happened to be Catholic, is a fascinating character. His bafflement was on full display in his bipolar relationship with God and the Catholic Church. He sometimes thought of his faith as a malign virus he once caught which, despite all his efforts, he could not get rid of. He confided to a friend, “The trouble is I don’t believe in my unbelief.” That same friend, a Catholic priest, tells us Greene found comfort in the words of Pascal, “The man who has begun looking for God has already found him.” Few have understood Greene better than his friend Malcolm Muggeridge, who described him as "a Jekyll and Hyde character, who has not succeeded in fusing the two sides of himself into any kind of harmony." The paradoxical union of Catholicism and skepticism, incarnated in Greene and his work, created a hybrid, a metaphysical mutant..
Posted on: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 19:02:00 +0000
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