Graham Greene's journeys in Spain and Portugal : travels with my priest / Carlos Villar Flor ; translated by David Stephen and the author.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Villar, Carlos, 1966- author, translator.

Contributor:

Stephen, David, translator.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Standardized Title:

Viajes con mi cura. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Greene, Graham, 1904-1991--Travel--Spain.

Greene, Graham.

Greene, Graham, 1904-1991--Travel--Portugal.

Greene, Graham, 1904-1991. Monsignor Quixote--Sources.

Durán, Leopoldo.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

This expansive and compelling literary biography details the many trips to Spain and Portugal that Graham Greene took in the last years of his life in the company of his friend, the priest and professor Leopoldo Durán. It shows how these trips provided the inspiration for 'Monsignor Quixote' (1982), which became Greene's favourite of his own novels.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Introduction

1 The Priest Who Invited Greene: The Life of Leopoldo Dura-.25exn before 1975

2 The Travels: A Day-by-Day Account

2.1 16-28 July 1976: A Tradition Is Born

2.2 13-27 July 1977: New Rituals, Portugal, and Quixotic Inspiration

2.3 12-26 July 1978: Imagining Monsignor Quixote

2.4 15-30 July 1979: Monsignor Quixote Takes Shape

2.5 6-25 July 1980: Guest of Honour of the Mayor of Madrid

2.6 3-15 July 1981: Putting the Finishing Touches to Monsignor Quixote

2.7 3-12 January 1982: Winter in Portugal

2.8 2-7 June 1983: The First Visit to the Murrieta Bodegas

2.9 9-19 August 1984: Goodbye to Portugal

2.10 23 April-2 May 1985: Monsignor Quixote Rides Again

2.11 18-23 May 1985: The Shooting of Monsignor Quixote Is Completed

2.12 23 July-2 August 1985: In Navarre Country

2.13 6-17 August 1986: The Last `Normal' Trip

2.14 3-12 August 1987: Guests of the House of Creixell

2.15 25-31 March 1989: Liquidation!

3 The Years of Friendship with Greene (1976-91)

3.1 Work and Occupation

3.2 Health and Other Personal Matters

3.3 Meetings in Antibes

3.4 Monsignor Quixote c'est moi

3.5 Monsignor Quixote, the film

3.6 Fame

4 On the Track of Murrieta: The Decline and Fall of the Graham Greene Foundation

4.1 The Child Is Born

4.2 The Foundation Is Wound Up

4.3 Epilogue

5 To Tell or Not to Tell: Writing Friend and Brother

5.1 Offers

5.2 Pulling It Together

5.3 Reactions

5.4 Monetary Matters

6 The Final Years of Leopoldo Durn

6.1 The Sale of the Treasures

6.2 Last Windmills

7 Conclusions: The Spy Who Came to La Mancha

Images

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Translated from the Spanish.

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on September 27, 2023).

ISBN:

0-19-269446-4

0-19-196425-5

0-19-269445-6

OCLC:

1401004048