“A splinter of Ice in the Heart of a writer” (Graham Greene)
To understand Greene’s liasons with espionage, watch the following video by Canadian Professor Richard Greene on “Graham Greene and the spies”.
“Greene was a contrarian with a taste of paradox and a sympathy for outsiders. He was never finished fighting the demons of his childhood” (Richard Greene).
Mentioned; Anthony Burgess ( writer)
Philip Kilby (Soviet spy)
See article in The Guardian about a play on friendship and betrayal between Graham Greene and Kim Philby
Graham Greene’s showdown with Soviet spy Kim Philby:
A Splinter of Ice review
"In February 1987, the novelist Graham Greene met the Soviet spy Kim Philby for dinner. The latter had been the former’s supervisor and friend at MI6 30 years earlier, but by the time they met Philby had long been exposed as a communist double agent and was living out his retirement in Moscow.
Ben Brown’s play, directed by Alastair Whatley and Alan Strachan, imagines that reunion, and it contains the potential for a reckoning that takes in their work for MI6 as well as their friendship and betrayals…."
So interesting!
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