QUEST FOR SELF IN GRAHAM GREENE’S SELECT NOVELS

Abstract

catholic novelist indulging in ontological exercises through his stories. He is, above all, a humanist whose concerns are much more varied and profound than that of a mere theologian. He is one of those pragmatic thinkers who had voiced the need for Christianity to mould its “mode and method of revolution” as it stands today. Therefore, Greene offers a new meaning, a new definition of Christianity for the elimination, regeneration of suffering mankind. Hence Greene is a crusader, a profound artist. Critics like John Atkins, Boris Ford, David Lodge talk about Graham Greene’s mind and art. They have focused on the gradual development of Greene as a novelist. But in this paper critical search light has been focused on the endless possibility of liberation of self as embodied by the protagonists of the two major novels by the novelist.