Graham Greene 소설의 소재가 되는 여행기 분석(Ⅰ) : Journey Without Maps = The Study of Graham Greene's Travel Writings as the Sources of his Novels

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This thesis aims at the study of Graham Greene's Travel Writings as the sources of his novels, such as Brighton Rock(1938), and The Heart of the Matter(1948). When he was in the childhood, he was very much interested in traveling in strange countries in his mind. To realize his early dreams, he left England for the first time as a young man. He traveled West Africa without the maps. His travel was to project his child's imagination during his Berkamsted school.
The background of Brighton Rock is the terrains he expiored, West Africa, where an atomosphere of fear and menace prevailed. The cruel and wicked world described in his travel writings became the background of Brighton Rock in the civilized one. Brighton Rock deals with Pinky who indulges in murdering as an incarnation of evil.
The background of The Heart of the Matter is Freetown. West Africa, which Graham Greene wrote his first travel writing about. The fear he felt there proves idele for when he next has the opportunity to describe the town, in the novel The Heart of the Matter, he again seems capable of recalling only the sense of squalor, ugliness, and decay that pervaded the place. Greene says in the travelogue that Africa suggests to him not a particular place but a shape which is roughly that of the human heart.
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 Lierian journey, however, the focus and quality of his novels changes. Greene is for the first time intent on suggesting the dimensions of the unsolvable mystery of the human condition, beyond or beneath and sociological or historical or psychological explanation.