GRAHAM GREENE - BRIGHTON
ROCK
A
story of a 17-year-old gangster in a seaside town seemed
an unlikely idea for a successful novel and later film,
but the sick adolescent, PINKIE, was made convincingly
evil - to such an extent that men twice his age feared
him.
The
success of the novel is down to good triumphing over
evil, though it is a long time coming. Gripping from
first to last, 'Brighton Rock' portrays sexual guilt and
moral guilt in a way that mirrors the pre-war years (the
book was first published in 1938).
-
Paul Rance.
This Paul Rance article
originally appeared in issue 2 of EASTERN RAINBOW, in
1993. More details about Eastern Rainbow here.
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