Graham Greene has written fiction for more than four decades and has earned a reputation as one of the most distinguished novelists of this century. This reputation is due in part to the fact that he has traveled incessantly and has chronicled his exp...
Graham Greene has written fiction for more than four decades and has earned a reputation as one of the most distinguished novelists of this century. This reputation is due in part to the fact that he has traveled incessantly and has chronicled his experiences with some regularity. He has recorded a number of these experiences directly in works of non-fiction and indirectly, or creatively, in works of fiction. This study will examine the factual accounts of Greene's travels and the tendrils connecting them to this fiction.
Journey without Maps is the first travel writing that Graham Greene wrote about his journey. His travel book, the Liberian adventure, is called the "turning point" in Greene's development as a writer and accordingly describes Journey without Maps as the pivotal item on the list of his writings. Following the Liberian journey, however, the focus and quality of his novels changes. Greene is for the first time intent on suggesting the demensions of the unsolvable mystery of the human condition, beyond or beneath and sociological or historical or psychological explanation.