ABSTRACT
The American novelist John Hawkes published one of his most interesting novels, The Lime Twig–an imaginative parody of Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock, and to a lesser degree of Eric Ambler’s Background to Danger. Gabriel Garcia Marquez also respects Greene, and describes his limited debt to him. The early impact of Faulkner on Garcia Marquez is too notorious, although it was dominant in Leaf Storm and powerful in a limited geographical way in One Hundred Tears of Solitude; he has almost completely overcome it. The frequent ebullience of Garcia Marquez's fiction is at odds with the taut severity of Greene’s. Greene waspishly disagrees with any identification of his world as other than realistic, and particularly dislikes the term “Greeneiand” to describe his tonal setting. A useful text in considering Greene’s retextualizing of present history is Georg Lukacs’s analysis of Sir Walter Scott in The Historical Novel.
