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A World of My Own: A Dream Diary

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The British author shares the "strange . . . inner layers of his playful, guilty imagination" in this glimpse into a brilliant novelist's subconscious (The New York Times).

Culled from nearly eight hundred pages of the author's "dream diaries" kept between 1965 and 1989, this singular journal reveals "the feverish inner life of an intensely private man, providing an uncanny mirror-image of [his] novelistic obsessions, insecurities, and moral preoccupations" (Publishers Weekly).

In what Greene calls My Own World—as opposed to the Common World of shared reality—he accompanies Henry James on a disagreeable riverboat trip to Bogota, is caught in a guerilla crossfire with Evelyn Waugh and W. H. Auden, strolls in the Vatican garden with Pope John Paul II who's doling out Perugina chocolates like hosts, offers refuge to a suicidal Charlie Chaplin, and stages a disastrous play in blank verse for Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. He also shares his headspace with Goebbels, Castro, Cocteau, Queen Elizabeth, D. H. Lawrence, and talking kittens. And the landscape is just as wide: from Nazi Germany to Haiti to West Africa to Bethlehem 1 AD and to Sweden where he seeks treatment for leprosy. Greene is a criminal, spy, lover, assassin, witness, and writer.

Encompassing life, death, war, feuds, and career, and alternately absurdist, frightening, funny, and revealing, these fertile imaginings—many of which found their way into Greene's fiction—comprise nothing less than "an alternate autobiography . . . a uniquely candid self-portrait" of one of the giants of English literature (Kirkus Reviews).

© 2018 Open Road Media (E-bog): 9781504054317

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E-bog: 7. august 2018

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