Graham Greene - The Honorary Consul torrent

General Information
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Title: The Honorary Consul
Author: Graham Greene
Read By: Tim Pigott-Smith
Copyright: 1973
Audiobook Copyright: 2000
Genre: Mystery & Thrillers
Publisher: Chivers Audio Books
Abridged: No

Original Media Information
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ISBN: 0-7540-5397-0
Media: CD
Number: 8
Source: Library
Condition: Used

File Information
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Number of MP3s: 127
Total Duration: 10:23:44
Total MP3 Size: 286.51
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Book Description
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Editorial Reviews
Review
"The tension never relaxes and one reads hungrily from page to page,
reading the moment it will end." - Auberon Waugh, Evening Standard

Book Description

Set in a provincial Argentinean town, The Honorary Consul takes place
in that bleak country of exhausted passion, betrayal, and absurd hope
that Graham Greene has explored so precisely in such novels as The Power
and the Glory and The Comedians.

On the far side of the great, muddy river that separates the two countries
lies Paraguay, a brutal dictatorship shaken by sporadic revolutionary
activity; on the near side, a torpid city whose only visible cultural
institution is a brothel. The foreigners of the city are refugees, each
washed up on the banks of the Paraná by some inner disaster or defeat:
Dr. Eduardo Plarr, a physician, whose English father has vanished into
a Paraguayan prison, and for whom "caring is the only dangerous thing";
Humphries, a teacher of English, who has touched bottom and accepted
it; Charley Fortnum, the Honorary Consul, who at the age of sixty-one,
sustained by drink and his disputed status as British Consul, still
retains enough hope and illusion to marry a twenty-year-old girl from
Señora Sanchez' brothel...

With gathering force, Graham Greene draws his characters into the political
chaos that lies beneath the surface of South American life. Fortnum
is kidnapped by Paraguayan revolutionaries who have mistaken him for
the American Ambassador. Realizing their error, they threaten to execute
him anyway if their demands are not met. Plarr, torn between his instinctive
feeling for the revolutionaries -- one of whom is an old friend -- and
his ambiguous relationship with Fortnum, whose wife he has taken as
a lover, becomes involved in a tragicomedy that leads inexorably to
a meaningless death.

At the center of The Honorary Consul is Plarr, a brilliant Graham Greene
creation, perhaps the most moving and convincing figure in his fiction.
Plarr is a man so cut off from human feeling, so puzzled by the emotional
needs of men like Fortnum, that he is paradoxically vulnerable, chillingly
exposed, and required in the end to pay with his life for the illusions
that other people believe in and that he himself cannot share.

In the men and women who surround Plarr -- Clara, who has moved from
the brothel to Charley Fortnum's bedroom; Father Rivas, the revolutionary
priest who dominates those near him, despite his unsanctified marriage
and belief in political terror; Saavedra, the Argentinean novelist,
whose work lugubriously mirrors the world around him; Aquino, the poet-turned-r-
evolutionary; Colonel Perez, the cheerfully efficient chief of police
-- Graham Greene has created a world peculiarly his own. It is a world
illuminated by that special passion for the complexities of love, faith,
compassion, and betrayal that lies at the very heart of his work.