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- W45071736 abstract "Brighton Rock (1938),* reprinted countless times, remains one of Greene's most intriguing novels, eminently teachable in the classroom, mixing as it does the detective novel genre with adolescent sex hang-ups, and complicated by the claims of religion. It is also a period piece, evoking with the starkness of a black and white movie the feel of the 1930s in England, a country already in decline even before World War Two finally pushed it off the center of the world stage. Part of Greene ' s attraction as a writer always is that, having been in the right place at the right time, he is then able to chronicle with documentary fidelity the fall of some corrupt regime or other. Brighton Rock, a consistently symbolic and allegorical novel, does not, despite its fidelity to the lower Brighton of the time, chronicle the fall of England precisely, but seems (with the benefit of fifty years' hindsight) to hint at the much larger literal and figurative fall that the world war eventually brought. At the same time, the heavy emphasis on the religion, criticized even, or especially, by Catholic critics over the years,2 now seems anachronistic, as much imposed from above as the obligatory unsullied working-class hero in works of socialist realism of the same period.31 hope in this essay to direct attention away from the dated moral abstractions (is anyone seriously interested in an ethical league table where Good comes in first and Right a distant second, and where Evil is somehow preferable to mere Wrong?) and to concentrate more on the sociopolitical value of the novel. Greene's Catholicism, too, rather than being taken at its own valuation, can be inserted into a sociopolitical context. A young man who joins the Communist Party for four weeks in 1926 and later the same year is received into the Roman Catholic Church is clearly in need of a belief-system. These initiations were also ways of declaring contempt for an upper-class establishment (Tory and Anglican) which between 1914 and 1918 had sent a generation into the trenches of the Western Front and which now presided benignly over an economically stagnant Britain. The General Strike of 1926 was the nearest Britain came to a violent revolution in this century and the" @default.
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- W45071736 title "HISTORY OVER THEOLOGY: THE CASE FOR PINKIE IN GREENE'S BRIGHTON ROCK" @default.
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