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Woods confirms that Greene underwent a transformation once his work began to gain a wide reputation. “Greene was a popular writer. In the early part of his writing, Greene began to divide his own fiction and label some of his writing [as entertainment].”
Interestingly, Greene sometimes removed the “entertainment” label in later reprintings. “But as soon as a writer associates himself with a [light] genre, a problem is created,” Wood says. Light fare on a writer’s repertoire is not...
After penning his most famous best sellers in the 1940s (including The Power and the Glory and the Heart of the Matter), Greene began to show signs that he was aware of the burden to write according to what the public expected of him.
At the pinnacle of his career, it indeed became truly difficult for Greene to disentangle his genuine man from his public persona. He became dangerously accustomed to having not only his works but his image commercialized and marketed. In fact, The End of the Affair put him on the cover...
Greene was consistently a writer on the edge. Although in his public writing he claimed to be committed to remaining aloof of political persuasions, he was no stranger to stirring up political controversy.