
The Confidential Agent
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Narrated by:
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Patrick Tull
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Graham Greene
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A minor nightmare by Graham Greene.
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Cool story
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And it really is. Yes, there are cloaks and daggers here. But most of them are figurative, making this story far more emotionally complex and harder-hitting than any thriller, more deeply thoughtful than a mere cloak-and-dagger spy adventure. Greene blends the headlines of 1939 with the medieval epic The Song of Roland to create a powerful, seamless whole. And Patrick Tull is, as always, magnificent at the mic, his reading bringing out all the ambiguities and paradoxes – political as well as personal.
So Much More Than an “Entertainment”
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An unexpected treasure
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Lukewarm.
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Patrick Tull’s gritty voice appropriate
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Great Story Terrible Narrator
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Problems with the performance
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perfect pairing - Graham Greene and Patrick Tull
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He wrote "Confidential Agent" (circa 1938-39) to put food on the table while he was working on "The Power and the Glory," but, being Graham Greene, it's not just a spy story even if that's what he was aiming for- it's kind of archetypal. The characters are not supposed to be well developed, I think, but sketches of types found in situations of injustice and rebellion and global economic disparty. You can read into it that the espionage revolves around the Spanish Civil War, but it is meant to be a generic situation. Imagine the audience for that in pre WWII England.
My problem with the audiobook is the narration --afer a few chapters I got used to it, but found it irritating at first. I am unfamiliar with the narator; he is either British and (rightly) affecting a nondescript European accent for the main character (whose nationality is not given in the novel on purpose)-- or someone using a British accent and trying to do so. In reviews of other books, I read that some U.S. listeners find some Brit accents hard to follow; if that is your circumstance, avoid this download because the narrator swallows a lot of vowels in this work, whatever his nationality.
I wish there were more of Greene's novels on this site. Audible, please give us more Greene (and his best novels) so more Americans (and Canadians like me) can rediscover the man who has been termed the "best Catholic novelist of the 20th century" (though I suspect the currrent pope wouldn't agree).
approach it as a fable
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