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Experimenting with the genre: Green and The Confidential Agent.(Graham Greene)

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From: Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature
Date: 20020922
Author:Coates, John

   His villains were almost always foreigners and foreigners, more 
   often than not, were villains. Teutons, dagoes and Jews were the 
   foreigners that The Breed particularly disliked. The Drummond 
   books, right from the start, had foreign villains who were trying to 
   smash England. (1) 

RICHARD Usborne's deservedly well-known account of the world of John Buchan, Dornford Yates and "Sapper" (H. C. McNeile), the popular thriller writers of the 1920s and 1930s, offers a short route into one of the contexts for Graham Greene's The Confidential Agent (1939). It is worth ...

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