Graham Greene: Travels With Our Author
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with Fr. Bob Sprott, OFM (scholar-in-residence)
Graham Greene (1904-1991) was a prominent English Catholic novelist, playwright, and journalist known for depicting the realities of good and evil, sin and grace, salvation and damnation, beneath the harsh materialist surface of the modern world.
In this seminar five of Greene’s novels take us across the globe into some of the more exotically seedy locales of the human heart. Beginning in Monte Carlo and England (Loser Takes All and The End of the Affair), we then head to the far east and Vietnam (The Quiet American). After seeing parts of Argentina and Paraguay that few have bothered with (The Honorary Consul), we end up in West Africa (The Heart of the Matter).
with Fr. Bob Sprott, OFM (scholar-in-residence)
Graham Greene (1904-1991) was a prominent English Catholic novelist, playwright, and journalist known for depicting the realities of good and evil, sin and grace, salvation and damnation, beneath the harsh materialist surface of the modern world.
In this seminar five of Greene’s novels take us across the globe into some of the more exotically seedy locales of the human heart. Beginning in Monte Carlo and England (Loser Takes All and The End of the Affair), we then head to the far east and Vietnam (The Quiet American). After seeing parts of Argentina and Paraguay that few have bothered with (The Honorary Consul), we end up in West Africa (The Heart of the Matter).
About the teacher
Fr. Bob Sprott, OFM, is a member of the Order of the Friars Minor. He holds a PhD in linguistics from the University of Chicago, and his work in ministry has led him to the American Southwest, working with Pueblo and Hispanic villages, the Canadian Arctic, working in the Diocese of Churchill-Hudson Bay, and Guatemala, teaching and providing spiritual direction at a minor seminary run by the Benedictine monks near the city of Quetzaltenango. In 2000 he returned to the U.S. and began ten years in Chicago, many of which were spent at St. Peter’s in the Loop. He has taught numerous adult education courses at the Newberry Library and at area parishes.
