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When friends die, one's own credentials change: one becomes a survivor. Graham Greene has already had biographers, one of whom has served him mightily. Yet I hope that there is room for the remembrance of a friend who knew him-not wisely, perhaps, but fairly well-on an island that was "not his kind of place," but where he came season after season, year after year; and where he, too, will be subsumed into the capacious story.
For millennia the cliffs of Capri have sheltered pleasure-seekers and refugees alike, among them the emperors Augustus and Tiberius, Henry James, Rilke, and Lenin, and hosts of artists, eccentrics, and outcasts. Here in the 1960s Graham Greene became friends with Shirley Hazzard and her husband, the writer Francis Steegmuller; their friendship lasted until Greene's death in 1991. In Greene on Capri, Hazzard uses their ever volatile intimacy as a prism through which to illuminate Greene's mercurial character, his work and talk, and the extraordinary literary culture that long thrived on this ravishing, enchanted island.
- Sales Rank: #764736 in Books
- Color: Multicolor
- Published on: 2001-06-04
- Released on: 2001-06-04
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .39" w x 5.50" l, .44 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 160 pages
Amazon.com Review
Shirley Hazzard's first encounter with Graham Greene had it all: timing, art, and an unbeatable setting--Capri. One December morning in the late '60s, he and a friend sat down at a café table next to hers and he began to quote from Browning's "The Lost Mistress." Yet try as Greene might, the last line wouldn't come to him. When she got up to go, Hazzard filled in the blank. As the beginning of a literary friendship goes, this could hardly be bettered. What's more, within hours she and her husband, Francis Steegmuller, were dining with the English author. Greene on Capri, Hazzard's evocation of their subsequent years of friendship, is generous, restrained, and complex. Two of those adjectives could, she makes clear, describe her friend, while restraint doesn't seem to have been part of his being. That longing for "peace," which Graham invoked throughout his life, in published and in private writings, seemed, on the other hand, a fantasy of transfiguration. Anyone who knew him--and he knew himself best of all--was aware that peace was the last thing he desired. It was literally the last thing, synonymous--as often in his fiction--with death. Hazzard's narrative mirrors the great allure of Greene's magnetic and destructive personality. First came the rapture of discourse--whether on Dryden, detective fiction, or the pleasures of Marjorie Bowen's The Viper of Milan: "A calm mingling of charm and horror sustains the reader's attention and dread: on a spring night in a moonlit garden, the fragrant wallflowers are 'the colour of blood just run dry.' As Graham has suggested, the book made evil interesting." Soon, however, Greene, an adept of instability, would proffer the conversational equivalent of a lethal injection, and Hazzard learned to beware his "bedevilment grin." Though she kept few records of her encounters with this "formidable master of the impossible," her too-brief memoir leaves the reader with a sympathetic picture of this angular, pitiless individual.
Many of the book's pleasures come, too, in her descriptions of Capri, capturing both the island's romance and its layers of unreality. But in the end, Hazzard's considerable generosity cannot preclude disappointment with Greene. How could it when she too often witnessed her friend's discernment edging into deep disdain? Readers will rejoice in her seven marvelous pages (which beg to be anthologized) on the writer Harold Acton, an exquisite contrast to Greene. "From his company one brought away unique lightness, tolerance, a sense of joy," Hazzard writes, and offers this misunderstood man the following valediction: "If his shade revisits his beloved garden, it certainly does not waste the moonlit evenings there in rancour; but will pass them joyfully, re-experiencing the grand illusion of art in the company of those who count the hours spent with him among the best." Greene on Capri makes one long for a fuller Hazzard memoir--and even more so for another of her beautiful fictions. --Kerry Fried
From Library Journal
In this beautifully written and compact jewel of a memoir, Hazzard (winner of the 1981 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for Transit of Venus) gives a completely rounded, fully fleshed miniature of the British novelist Graham Greene. Seen through the shared times that she and her husband, writer Francis Steegmuller, spent with Greene on the tiny Italian island of Capri, from their meeting in 1962 through Greene's last visit in 1988, this narrative somehow manages to give even the uninitiated a thorough insight into Greene's complicated personality, life, and writings. Miraculously, Hazzard also interweaves this with much of the long history of Capri as a beautiful island retreat for rebels and artists of all types, particularly the English. Highly recommended, both for the writing and its many levels of content, this is essential reading for fans of Greene.AShelley Cox, Southern Illinois Univ., Carbondale
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
A moving evocation of a distinguished writer and a luminous place that is also an elegy for an age when a literary life could still be lived among valued friends in unspoiled havens of beauty and repose. Hazzard's friendship with the novelist Graham Greene began in the 1960s. While sitting in a caf in Capri, she overheard him struggling to remember the last line of a poem, and gave it to him as she left the caf. That evening when she and her husband, the writer Francis Steegmuller, entered a favorite restaurant, Greene invited them to join him. They would be friends until his death in 1992, but mostly on his terms, and he could be irascible, even insulting. He was, Hazzard, observes, a man for whom ``enjoyment was transitory and not, to him, a necessity: a disposition, deeply attributable to temperament, which should be also referred to his background and generation.'' An adolescent during WWI and an adult in the Depression, he saw that ``pleasure could not be an assumption and was not a goal; whereas suffering was a constant.'' This perception informed his writing, his relations with people, and his dislike of the US. He stayed at Rosaio, his house on Capri, every spring and fall to be ``away'' and to write with few interruptions. Hazzard recalls the times spent with Greene: a congenial expedition to the ruins of the Emperor Tiberius' palace; the discussions of politics, movies, and writers like Waugh, whom Greene much admired, or Elizabeth Bowen, another friend. The island is as much a presence as Greene: a beautiful place with thousands of years of history, a refuge for emperors and writers changing irrevocably as mass tourism arrived. By then, Greene, too old to make the journey, had sold Rosaio but was already becoming part of Capri's ``capacious history.'' A wonderful literary feast in a perfect setting. -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
Most helpful customer reviews
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Green groupies will enjoy this book
By WORLDGIRL
I really enjoyed this book -- good for Graham Greene groupies, to see what his lifestyle was like during this period of his life, from the vantage point of a woman who hung out with his circle of friends.
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
Splendid portrait of a great and troubled writer
By A Customer
This brief, finely-written memoir does a remarkable job of capturing--without false sound and fury--the later years of one of our century's best writers of English. Greene will ever be underestimated a little because he wrote so cleanly and clearly, without the pyrotechnics of prose that win the shriveled little hearts of campus critics. Greene is thrown into a handsome, twilit relief by the changing seasons of Capri, and, all in all, the book was a delight. It shames one, however, as a member of the baby-boom generation, to realize how much we have lost in our trend-ravaged educations. The book begins with a woman completing a line of poetry for a stranger in a cafe, and is full of conversational references that simply would not occur today--who memorizes poetry, or even reads it seriously? The only reason I did not give this book five stars is the insufferably snotty postures struck by the author herself. While I would have loved to know Greene, I suspect I would have run screaming from the pretensions of the woman who has managed to give us this otherwise fine book. Not a substitute for Norman Sherry's masterful life of Greene, but a delicious dessert read afterward.
4 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
Not Greene nor Capri...
By A Customer
Shirley and Francis must have lived a more interesting life than the one depicted in this book. The book is about a literary couple who interacts with Graham Greene once a year on Capri for a short time over a number of years. Or at least Francis was literary -- Greene certainly did not see Ms. Hazzard as a peer. Close friends they were not.
The book is barely about Capri and much less about Greene. However, the book is about Ms. Hazzard's pretentiousness.
What little valuable information is found in the book, is hidden among difficult prose and incomplete thoughts. Ms. Hazzard goes from one topic about herself and F. to another. Every so often Greene is introduced as an after thought.
Her book is sad, not because Greene was always difficult in personal situations, but due to her own frustrations.
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