Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party. “On the Road with Graham Greene’s Monsignor Quixote”.

“La aventura española de Graham Greene: De cómo nació Monseñor Quijote”. Jackson, MS: University of Mississippi Press. Search in Google Scholarĭonaghy, Henry J. In Search of a Beginning: My Life with Graham Greene. Greene and Unamuno: Two Pilgrims to La Mancha. Lonely Without God: Graham Greene´s Quixotic Journey of Faith. “Wine, Priests and Guardias: Spanish Decaying Clichés in Graham Greene’s Monsignor Quixote”. Search in Google ScholarĬano Echevarría, Berta. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press. Between Human and Divine: The Catholic Vision in Contemporary Literature. Search in Google Scholarīrennan, Michael G. Taking as a major source Durán’s diaries, 16 notebooks recording his meetings and telephone conversations with Greene from 1976 to 1991, this paper aims to clarify some of the relevant background to the book’s inception, complementing the diaries with other accounts such as Greene’s letters to Durán and other friends, Durán’s letters to Greene, and testimonies by witnesses present at the events described. The opening of the “Durán papers” collection at Georgetown University enables scholars to delve into unpublished material kept by Durán over the years, which may cast insights into the genesis of Monsignor Quixote from both textual and biographical perspectives. Centred around an idealistic, innocent, and somewhat foolish priest who establishes an intimate friendship with a communist ex-mayor, with whom he travels around Spain and talks about the divine and the human, the novel was initially conceived as a kind of friendly caricature of Father Durán, but it soon served as a vehicle to express various concerns that haunted the writer’s mind.

The most outstanding fruit of these trips, almost always in summer, was the inspiration for Monsignor Quixote (1982), which Greene came to regard as his most accomplished novel (Cloetta 2004: 77). In the 1970 s and 1980s Graham Greene took up the habit of travelling around Spain to holiday in the company of his Spanish friend, the priest and professor Leopoldo Durán.

Monsieur quixote