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In this widely acclaimed modern classic, Graham Greene delves deep into character to tell the dramatic, suspenseful story of a good man's conflict between passion and faith. A police commissioner in a British-governed, war-torn West African state, Scobie is bound by the strictest integrity and sense of duty both for his Colonial responsibilities and for his wife, whom he deeply pities but no longer loves. Passed over for a promotion, he is forced to borrow money in order to send his despairing wife away on a holiday. When in her absence he develops a passion for a young widow, the scrupulously honest Catholic finds himself giving way to deceit and dishonor. Enmeshed in love and intrigue, he will betray everything he believes in, with tragic consequences. The Heart of the Matter is one of Graham Greene's most enduring and tragic novels.… (més)
akfarrar: Another serious book with marriage at the heart of it and the tug of war between being an individual and uniting with an 'other'.
Both deal with a generation of people on the edge of change and with matters both earthly and spiritual.
John_Vaughan: The two books reflect the supposedly 'catholic' viewpoint so often attributed to Greene. The Mission Song is from a catholic African's view.
Sierra Leone, segona guerra mundial: un subinspector casat però no enamorat de la seva esposa, amb un sentit extrem del deure; una esposa insatisfeta; una amant exigent; tot això el porta a acceptar un xantatge, per bé d'elles, però ell que havia estat sempre un home íntegre, s'adona que el xantatge és el seu final. El llibre m'ha sembla que té un argument com de film, fins i tot els personatges estan descrits com narrant una pel·lícula, tot i que sempre se centra en el pensament del protagonista. La traducció flueix. ( )
A policeman's lot is not a happy one. The white (and dark) man's burden must always be heavy. And man's debt to man will be forever in arrears -- from West Africa to the West End, from Brooklyn to Bucharest. Generations of novelists have wrestled with these melancholy truisms. It is a pleasure to report that Graham Greene, in "The Heart of the Matter," has wrestled brilliantly with all three -- and scored three clean falls. Mr. Greene (as a well-earned public knows) is a profound moralist with a technique to match his purpose. From first page to last, this record of one man's breakdown on a heat-drugged fever-coast makes its point as a crystal-clear allegory -- and as an engrossing novel.
One thing I admire with the Heart of the Matter is the introduction of several other characters that in a way or another adds up to the genuine plot. They all seem to have a story to tell and each story affects and adds up to the conflict that has been surfacing within the inner self of Scobie.
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"Le pécheur est au cœur même de chrétienté. . . .Nul n'est aussi compétent que le pécheur en matière de chrétienté. Nul, si ce n'est le saint." -- Péguy
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To V.G., L.C.G., and F.C.G.
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Wilson sat on the balcony of the Bedford Hotel with his bald pink knees thrust against the ironwork.
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He Had no sense of responsibility towards the beautiful and the graceful and the intelligent. They could find their own way. It was the face for which nobody would go out of his way, the face that would never catch the covert look, the face which would soon be used to rebuffs and indifference that demanded his allegiance. The word 'pity' is used as loosely as the word 'love' : the terrible promiscuous passion which so few experience.
Outside the rest-house he stopped again. The lights inside would have given an extraordinary impression of peace if one hadn't known, just as the stars on this clear night gave also an impression of remoteness, security, freedom. If one knew, he wondered, the facts, would one have to feel pity even for the planets? if one reached what they called the heart of the matter?
Darreres paraules
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"And you may be in the right of it there, too," Father Rank replied.
In this widely acclaimed modern classic, Graham Greene delves deep into character to tell the dramatic, suspenseful story of a good man's conflict between passion and faith. A police commissioner in a British-governed, war-torn West African state, Scobie is bound by the strictest integrity and sense of duty both for his Colonial responsibilities and for his wife, whom he deeply pities but no longer loves. Passed over for a promotion, he is forced to borrow money in order to send his despairing wife away on a holiday. When in her absence he develops a passion for a young widow, the scrupulously honest Catholic finds himself giving way to deceit and dishonor. Enmeshed in love and intrigue, he will betray everything he believes in, with tragic consequences. The Heart of the Matter is one of Graham Greene's most enduring and tragic novels.
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Group Read, August 2017: The Heart of the Matter
El llibre m'ha sembla que té un argument com de film, fins i tot els personatges estan descrits com narrant una pel·lícula, tot i que sempre se centra en el pensament del protagonista.
La traducció flueix. (