Author Name: Greene, Graham
Title: The Comedians
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Type: Cloth-Covered Boards
Edition: UNIFORM EDITION
Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A. Viking Penguin 1965
ISBN Number: 0670232084 / 9780670232086
Seller ID: 08457
Hardcopy and Brodart-wrapped D/J are both in NEAR FINE condition. Jacket is price-clipped. This UNIFORM EDITION was reissued in 1981. A novel that seamlessly weaves fiction and fact, THE COMEDIANS is a tale set in "that shabby land of terror," the voodoo-ridden Haiti of "Papa Doc" Duvalier and the Tontons Macoute, the brutal secret police of his regime. Like its predecessor The Quiet American, THE COMEDIANS is essentially a story about the committed and the uncommitted. The black intellectual Doctor Magiot is committed. His last letter to Brown, the interesting, self-doubting man who tells the story, as a statement and an appeal by the committed -- by a man who must, by his nature, share the terrible events of his time. But the Comedians, Brown, Smith, and Jones -- not bad men, certainly, and capable of heroism of a sort -- have opted out. They play their parts in the foreground: they experience love affairs rather than love; they have enthusiasms but not a faith; and if they die, they die by accident. With alternating comedy, irony, and grim violence, Graham Greene has created a terrain of mounting suspense and subtle significance, and has fashioned a very important novel of our times.
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