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The captain and the enemy

Greene's last novel, a lonely boarding-school student encounters a secretive stranger who introduces himself simply as "the Captain". The boy is taken to London by the stranger and raised in odd and touching circumstances by Liza, a young women with close but unexplained ties to the Captain. It is only when the boy grows to manhood that he will learn the shocking truth about the Captain's allegiances and activities, and will begin to understand the true nature of love.

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  • "Captain and the enemy"@it

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  • "Curieuse parabole que cette histoire d'un garçon de douze ans qu'un étrange "capitaine" a gagné au jeu lors d'une partie de backgammon avec son père. Ecrit à la première personne, ce roman initiatique narre l'éducation d'écrivain que les faits imposent au jugement du jeune face aux adultes et au monde interlope où ceux-ci le font pénétrer."
  • "Nadat een 12-jarige jongen door zijn vader is ingezet bij een partijtje schaak, neemt de winnaar diens opvoeding ter hand."
  • "Een jongeman zoekt zijn mysterieuze pleegvader op in een politiek geladen situatie in Nicaragua."
  • "Greene's last novel, a lonely boarding-school student encounters a secretive stranger who introduces himself simply as "the Captain". The boy is taken to London by the stranger and raised in odd and touching circumstances by Liza, a young women with close but unexplained ties to the Captain. It is only when the boy grows to manhood that he will learn the shocking truth about the Captain's allegiances and activities, and will begin to understand the true nature of love."@en
  • "In Graham Greene's final novel a secretive stranger takes Victor Baxter out of a boarding school much like that of Greene's own youth. The "Captain" changes the boy's name to Jim and brings him to London to serve as a surrogate son to a mysterious woman named Liza. Raised in odd, touching circumstances, Jim never comprehends the enduring relationship between the Captain and Liza, and he struggles to understand what love itself is. Although the novel then takes the Captain and Jim into seedy political intrigue in Panama and Nicaragua, it finally returns to the question of what the proofs of human love are. John Auchard's introduction establishes links to Greene's biography as it considers the places in the lost past where themes that preoccupy a character-or a novelist-had their flashes of genesis."

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  • "romaner"
  • "Advance copies (Printing)"
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Fiction"
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  • "Uncorrected proofs (Printing)"
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  • "The captain and the enemy"
  • "The captain and the enemy"@en
  • "Le capitaine et l'ennemi : roman"
  • "Yüzbasi ve düsman"
  • "The Captain and the Enemy"@en
  • "The Captain and the Enemy"
  • "Ein Mann mit vielen Namen"@en
  • "Ein Mann mit vielen Namen"
  • "De kapitein en de vijand"
  • "Kapitan i vrag : roman"
  • "Kapteeni ja vihollinen"
  • "Kapteeni ja vihollinen"@fi
  • "Bākhat-i panhān"
  • "Capitanul si inamicul"
  • "El Capitan y el enemigo"
  • "El Capitán y el enemigo"
  • "Le capitaine et l'ennemi"
  • "L'uomo dai molti nomi"@it
  • "L'uomo dai molti nomi"
  • "Cǎpitanul şi inamicul"
  • "The Captain and the enemy : [novel]"
  • "Kapteinen og fienden"
  • "Uomo dai molti nomi"
  • "El capitan y el enemigo"
  • "A Kapitány és az ellenség : [regény]"@hu
  • "O kapetanios kai o echthros"
  • "باخت پنهان"
  • "El capitán y el enemigo"
  • "El capitán y el enemigo"@es
  • "O capitão e o inimigo"
  • "A Kapitány és az ellenség"
  • "Yüzbaşı ve düşman= The captain and the enemy"
  • "Kaptajnen og fjenden"
  • "Kaptajnen og fjenden"@da
  • "Ein Mann mit Vielen Namen : Roman"
  • "Ein Mann mit vielen Namen Roman"
  • "Kaptenen och fienden"
  • "Kaptenen och fienden"@sv
  • "Le Capitaine et l'ennemi : roman"
  • "El capitá y el enemigo"@es
  • "Ein Mann mit vielen Namen : Roman"
  • "Yuzbasi ve dusman"
  • "The Captain and the enemy"
  • "The Captain and the enemy"@en

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