In Search of a Character

In Search of a Character

First edition
Author	Graham Greene
Language	English
Publisher	The Bodley Head
Publication date	1961
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)

In Search of a Character: Two African Journals is a slim volume, part travel book, part novelist’s journal, written by English author Graham Greene and first published in 1961.^[1] Greene set two of his novels in Africa; A Burnt-Out Case, set in the Belgian Congo, and The Heart of the Matter, set in Sierra Leone. This book contains the journals, not originally intended for publication, that Greene kept on journeys he made for research purposes before writing those two novels.

The first part, Convoy to West Africa, covers his journey to Sierra Leone in 1941. The second part, Congo Journal, mainly deals with his journey to the Belgian Congo in 1959 and the people he meets along the way. He made the latter trip with the story of his 1960 novel A Burnt-Out Case already partly written, and it is apparent he is searching for characters to populate that story.^[2] Greene fans often find this work interesting as a glimpse into the mind of the writer and of the man.

References

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Works by Graham Greene and their adaptations

Bibliography

Novels

• The Man Within (1929)
• The Name of Action (1930)
• Rumour at Nightfall (1932)
• Stamboul Train (1932)
• It's a Battlefield (1934)
• England Made Me (1935)
• The Bear Fell Free (1935)
• A Gun for Sale (1936)
• Brighton Rock (1938)
• The Confidential Agent (1939)
• The Power and the Glory (1940)
• The Ministry of Fear (1943)
• The Heart of the Matter (1948)
• The Third Man (novella; 1949)
• The End of the Affair (1951)
• The Quiet American (1955)
• Loser Takes All (1955)
• Our Man in Havana (1958)
• A Burnt-Out Case (1960)
• The Comedians (1966)
• Travels with My Aunt (1969)
• The Honorary Consul (1973)
• The Human Factor (1978)
• Doctor Fischer of Geneva (1980)
• Monsignor Quixote (1982)
• The Tenth Man (1985)
• The Captain and the Enemy (1988)
• No Man's Land (2005)

Travel books

• Journey Without Maps (1936)
• The Lawless Roads (1939)
• In Search of a Character (1961)
• Getting to Know the General: The Story of an Involvement (1984)

Autobiography

• A Sort of Life (1971)
• Ways of Escape (1980)
• Getting to Know the General: The Story of an Involvement (1984)
• A World of My Own: A Dream Diary (1992)

Plays

• The Living Room (1953)
• The Potting Shed (1957)
• The Complaisant Lover (1959)
• Carving a Statue (1964)
• The Return of A. J. Raffles (1975)
• The Great Jowett (1981)
• Yes and No (1983)
• For Whom the Bell Chimes (1983)

Story collections

• Twenty-One Stories (1954)
• A Sense of Reality (1963)
• May We Borrow Your Husband? (1967)
• The Last Word and Other Stories (1990)

Short stories

• "The End of the Party" (1929)
• "Proof Positive" (1930)
• "The Basement Room" (1936)
• "Across the Bridge" (1938)
• "Alas, Poor Maling" (1940)
• "The Blue Film" (1954)
• "The Destructors" (1954)
• "A Shocking Accident"
• "The Invisible Japanese Gentlemen"
• "The Last Word"

Films

• Orient Express (1934)
• The Future's in the Air (1937)
• The New Britain (1940)
• 21 Days (1940)
• This Gun for Hire (1942)
• Went the Day Well? (1942)
• Ministry of Fear (1944)
• Brighton Rock (1947)
• The Fallen Idol (1948)
• The Third Man (1949)
• The Heart of the Matter (1953)
• The End of the Affair (1955)
• Loser Takes All (1956)
• Saint Joan (1957)
• The Quiet American (1958)
• Our Man in Havana (1959)
• The Comedians (1967)
• Travels with My Aunt (1972)
• The Human Factor (1979)
• The Honorary Consul (1983)
• Monsignor Quixote (1985)
• The End of the Affair (1999)
• The Quiet American (2002)
• Brighton Rock (2010)

Other

• Brighton Rock (play)
• Shades of Greene

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