ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1966
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

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Title: THE COMEDIANS
Publisher: The Viking Press, NEW YORK
Publication Date: 1966
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: James and Ruth McCrea
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket: Acceptable
Edition: Book Club

The Comedians (1966) is a novel by Graham Greene. Set in Haiti under the rule of François `Papa Doc` Duvalier and his secret police, the Tontons Macoutes, the novel explores political repression and terrorism through the figure of an English hotel owner, Brown.

The story begins as three men, Brown, Smith, an `innocent` American; and Major H. O. Jones, a confidence man; meet on a ship bound for Haiti. Brown, Smith, and Jones, their names suggesting a curious facelessness, are the `comedians` of Greene`s title. Complications include Brown`s friendship with a rebel leader, hotel guests who are politically active, and an affair with Martha Pineda, the wife of a South American ambassador. The fictional Hotel Trianon, the setting for much of the novel, was inspired by the Hotel Oloffson in central Port-au-Prince.

The New York Times noted that Greene writes about dark places, and this novel explores Haiti under Duvalier and his paramilitary, known as the Tontons Macoutes. Greene explores `despair at evil triumphant, sustained by dollar-aid from the U.S.A.`[2] He expresses `despair at the death of the good Communist doctor and the would-be-good confidence trickster, Major Jones.` The reviewer recognised Greene`s studies of persons who were failures, as `grey` was uppermost in his literary world. He notes,

`Nevertheless he [Jones] is the novel`s hero. He can die- he can succeed in that- and he dies heroically, covering the retreat of the rest, since his flat feet would only delay the whole party if he were to try to escape with his men.`

He also says that Greene writes with `much liveliness and skill, and with such a will and ability to please and carry us along` that we want to visit his lands.

In The New York Review of Books, Sybille Bedford described this tenth novel by Greene as `a work of strength and freshness, and in its core there lies the steel coil of compulsion.` She describes the novel as a `very good story, as we have come to expect.` In describing the characters, she notes that Brown goes to Haiti as `the only place on earth where he might be said to have a stake, a love affair, and a piece of property.`