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The End of the Affair - Coggle Diagram

- - - - force us to read text in a different way - cared more about author’s message, but not with post-structuralism you think about intentions of author but most importantly what reader gets from the text → freedom
      - but author is never actually dead - only one element, not ultimate authority of text
      - biography + context disliked for structuralists, which is why post-structuralism highlights it
      - elements of biography in book - did dedicate book to Catherine
      - "The Death of the Author"
        
        “anti-theological” gesture
        
        resisting “Authority of God” the idea of God as an absolute ruler
        
        “since to refuse to fix meaning is, in the end, to refuse God and his hypostases - reason, science, law”
        
        author in end of the affair a figure but not with authority
- - - - Estimates of total dead in World War II from 35,000,000 to 60,000,000
  - - - narrator himself in that state, relationship w/ Sarah passionate and loving, but not peaceful - chaotic and messy - war of emotions, psychological war
      - language of hate, possession, suspicion, cynicism, cruelty - unusual for a narrator, but when its set during the war it's different
      - Noir movies
        
        GG was also writer for noir films - typical plot
        
        shady business and the relationships
        
        Graham Greene wrote “The Third Man” script 1949 - dark - black and white typically, specific aesthetic - influenced by German expressionism
        
        Noir genre - new type of morality, times of war are when you find out about shady things you didn’t realise
        
        lighting and shadows to convey whats happening to characters through the image - morally unclear
        
        male protangonists of film noir often damaged and flawed, morally doubtful, alienated, filled w/ existential resentment + narrate story - no perfect hereos
        
        female spies - femme fatales, turned into enemies, women were confident about themselves - Sarah in novel? master of her own life and emotions, freedom to do what she likes
        
        espionage and spies shown in Mr Parkis - influenced by Greene's own experience with MI6
- - - - A self-insert of Graham Greene?
      - lives near the same place Greene did, also has the writing of 500 words a day for their novels, affair with the wife of a politician named henry, and also grapples for the conversion to catholicism and the pain that comes with it
      - novel may not be autobiographical with Greene’s life, but Bendrix certainly presents himself as a self-portrait
  - - - spite towards God
      - contradictory feelings towards God
      - God a competitor - panics about Sarah’s pre-destined path to God and catholicism - denial of her journey to God
        
        God is another man and took her away from him - act of sex of Sarah giving her body to Bendrix
        
        emotions and human contradictions