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The Odd Couple: Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene
Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene may have been unlike in politics, religion and personality, but they remained the closest of friends for four decades.
I am cantankerous but not about that sort of thing — about cooking and theology and clothes and grammar and dogs.” The promising project collapsed when Waugh refused to surrender artistic control to the producer, and Greene absolutely loathed David Selznick. When The Heart of the Matter was chosen by the lucrative Book-of-the-Month Club, Waugh told Greene that high British taxes made it “impossible now to be rich but it is possible to be idle, and this American coup relieves you of work for about 15 years”. Waugh praised the story as “a singularly beautiful and moving one … The relationship of lover to husband with its crazy mutations of pity, hate, comradeship, jealousy and contempt is superbly described … Greene’s characteristic achievement has been to take the contemporary form of melodrama and to transfuse it with spiritual life.”
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