Graham Greene -I'll Be Damned - Christopher Hitchens - Arguably
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- Graham Greene once wrote a celebrated essay about a doppelgänger who cared enough to haunt and shadow him, even to masquerade as him. This "other" Greene appeared to have anterior knowledge of the movements of his model, sometimes showing up to grant an interview or fill a seat in a restaurant, so that Greene himself, when he arrived in some old haunt or new locale, would be asked why he had returned so soon. The other man was suitably nondescript yet camera-shy. He was caught once by a society photographer, and captioned in the press into the bargain, but a combination of flash and blur allowed him to escape unmasking. So who or what was he? Semblable? Frère? Or perhaps hypocrite lecteur?
Thank you so much for these. Wonderful.
thank you I've still more to add!
Hitchens is bang on about Greene. The latter was repetitive and unconvincing for the most part Orwell's review of 'The Heart of the Matter' was extremely perceptive. Greene's endorsement of Philby was particularly despicable
At 4:05 the narrator says "preservation" while in the book it says " presentation". Is the narrator wrong, or is it a misprint?
At 11:34 he says "like a Hugue not imagining Rome" whereas of course it should be 'Huguenot'.
If the review is by Sherry , why is Hitchens making a comment, searching for stuff to do like a millennial, they call it content these days!
The world has left you behind.
Hitchen's schtick became tiresome and repetitive towards the end.
He should have read A Burnt Out Case ?
Or, perhaps he did and found the main character far too close for comfort ?
I wonder what his “Schlick” would be today…let’s not speak I’ll of the dead.
@@NoNameNo.5 Greene included?
Someone reads Christopher Hitchens' review and in a pedestrian fashion, and his attempts to add a sense of drama here and there sound pathetic. Go and read the review.