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The Man Within

(Penguin Classics)

By Jonathan Yardley, Graham Greene

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| Paperback | 9780143039211

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Book Description

Graham Greene’s first published novel represented for the author "one sentimental gesture towards his own past, the period of ambition and hope." It tells the story of Andrews, a young man who has betrayed his fellow smugglers and fears their vengeance. The Man Within offers a foretastContinue

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One of the unanticipated benefits of British rule in India is the body of distinguished writing in the English language coming from the Indian diaspora — Naipaul, Seth, Rushdie, Mistry, Mishra and Pico Iyer. Iyer, however, is atypical in that he was ... (read full critics)

spectator published on Fri, 25 May 2012

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It’s about the fight between a man and his conscience, even if conscience is everything we are, even if we always have to obey our conscience.
It’s about the fight between Andrews and his father, Andrews’ fight against the memory of his father and against his father inside himself.
Love is what ma ... (continue)

It’s about the fight between a man and his conscience, even if conscience is everything we are, even if we always have to obey our conscience.
It’s about the fight between Andrews and his father, Andrews’ fight against the memory of his father and against his father inside himself.
Love is what makes Andrews aware of the correspondence between his person and his conscience, which is not alien, is not “the man within”, the other himself. The other himself is his father, and in order to be safe he has only to obey his conscience, his real himself.
We’re all made by a steady struggle between our two selves , and voice that whispers in our ear is our soul, is what we really are.

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