Graham Greene – The Swiss Chapter
For those of you who were wondering what has been taking up most of my attention in recent months – here it is, fresh from the printers…
I have just completed the translation, from French into English, of Pierre Smolik’s literary study on Graham Greene’s life in Switzerland…
For further information:
http://www.call-me-edouard.com/page3/index.html
or alternatively… http://www.call-me-edouard.com/en/livres/graham-greene-1/
This photo was taken with the wonderfully funny Emil Steinberger – the Swiss actor who is famous for his, ‘Die Schweizermacher’, at The Swiss Chapter’s book vernissage in Montreux.
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Fantastic project!
Greene may have been a literary genius but I totally disagree with his belief that Switzerland is only”bearable under snow”-my favourite and most romantic times there were when there was no snow-surely this is when one sees the real beauty of it?!
Well Sophie, everything has its beauty just not everyone can see it…
Have you read Dr Fischer of Geneva? A wonderful story about the greed of the rich and the pride of the poor – the only novel by Graham Greene written entirely in Switzerland…
As a writer with Irish roots,Frances, are you touched by the death of the “never to be equalled” Seamus Heaney?
Oh dear Helen – indeed I am. See my entry ‘Postscript’…
I once was present at a reading in Ireland and did some blind drawings of the great man. Afterwards, when I told him I listened to his tapes while doing the ironing he looked at me and said, ‘You deserve so much more than my poetry!’
He was and always will remain my hero…!
What a precious memory to have….
indeed – I treasure it 🙂
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