Graham Greene: Travels With Our Author
Wednesday, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., April 29-July 1
St. Gregory the Great
Msgr. Klasen Memorial Gymnasium, 1609 W Gregory St
with Fr. Bob Sprott, OFM (scholar-in-residence)
One of the twentieth century’s most interesting and prolific authors was Graham Greene, an Englishman whose life is very nearly as intriguing as his best fiction, and whose travels and books encompass pretty much the entire globe.
In this reading group we will let six of Greene’s novels take us around the world into some of the more exotically seedy locales of the human heart. Beginning in Monte Carlo and England (Loser Takes All and Brighton Rock), we then head to the far east and Vietnam (The Quiet American). Then, 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) before returning to England for what is perhaps his most openly Catholic-tinged work (The End of the Affair). Please read Loser Takes All for the first class.
St. Gregory the Great
Msgr. Klasen Memorial Gymnasium, 1609 W Gregory St
with Fr. Bob Sprott, OFM (scholar-in-residence)
One of the twentieth century’s most interesting and prolific authors was Graham Greene, an Englishman whose life is very nearly as intriguing as his best fiction, and whose travels and books encompass pretty much the entire globe.
In this reading group we will let six of Greene’s novels take us around the world into some of the more exotically seedy locales of the human heart. Beginning in Monte Carlo and England (Loser Takes All and Brighton Rock), we then head to the far east and Vietnam (The Quiet American). Then, 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) before returning to England for what is perhaps his most openly Catholic-tinged work (The End of the Affair). Please read Loser Takes All for the first class.
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.
