(H/B) BRIGHTON ROCK

Παρουσίαση

Graham Greene's classic study in the banality of evil is set in the seedy underworld of pre-war Brighton where Pinkie, a small-time gangster, meets his nemesis at the hands of Ida, the girl he betrays. Published in 1938, Greene's most celebrated novel inaugurated the long series of masterpieces produced between then and his death in 1991. (From the publisher)

[...] He got the idea for the story from newspaper accounts of a case at Lewes Assizes in July 1936 - a case at which, as he later remarked, "the Brighton race gangs were to all intents quashed forever as a various menace". The details of the affray, in which a gang of sixteen men (armed with hatchets, hammers and iron bars - but not razors) attacked a bookmaker and his clerk, resemble the assault on Pinkie and Spicer by Colleoni's hoodlums. (From the introduction)