From Goa to London with Graham Greene: A first-person account of a literary friendship
Graham Greene (left) and Maria Aurora Couto | Photograph of Maria Aurora Couto by Frederick Noronha. At 19, I was obsessed with a man I did not know. Graham Greene’s novels were among the works prescribed for my Master’s degree. My admiration for Greene’s writing was clouded by irritation with critical assessments that labelled Greene a “Catholic” novelist (along with Evelyn Waugh). These analyses, often misguided, I believed, by highly structured theological arguments, diminished and even erased the tragic dimensions of our lives and world. Greene’s skills as ...
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