How Long to Read Graham Greene's Journeys in Spain and Portugal

How Long Does it Take to Read Graham Greene's Journeys in Spain and Portugal?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 22 minutes to read Graham Greene's Journeys in Spain and Portugal by Flor

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In the 1970s and 1980s, Graham Greene adopted the yearly habit of touring Spain and Portugal in the company of his Spanish friend, the priest and university professor Leopoldo Durán. The most outstanding fruit of these trips, almost always in summer, was the inspiration for his major Hispanic novel, Monsignor Quixote (1982), a celebration of friendship above ideological, political, or religious differences, incorporating allusions to Cervantes' famous comic novel within a critical vision of post-Franco Spain. Graham Greene's Journeys in Spain and Portugal: Travels with My Priest reconstructs each of Greene's trips through the Iberian Peninsula between 1976 and 1989, detailing their preparations, itineraries, anecdotes, companions, topics of conversation, and often surprising repercussions. Carlos Villar Flor outlines the trips' biographical importance and fills numerous gaps of documented information on this final phase of Greene's life. His detailed inquiry into Greene's Iberian adventures with Durán also helps us better to understand the genesis and resonances of Monsignor Quixote, which over time became Greene's favourite of his own novels, and the subsequent television adaptation. The book also addresses incidents and aspects that, for one reason or another, never emerged in Durán's own account of their travels together, Graham Greene: Friend and Brother (1994). These include the possible motivations for Greene's first visit to Spain, related to his role as an informant for MI6; the mysterious visits to an old English lady located in Sintra; the writer's attempts in the early 1980s to establish links with Spanish socialists; or the fascinating story of a Spanish nobleman's suspicious proposal to create a Greene Foundation. Ultimately, Greene's trips to Spain and Portugal appear as more layered and intriguing than Durán's account suggests, whilst Durán himself emerges aptly as a complex and quixotic figure--as much the protagonist of this book as Greene.

How long is Graham Greene's Journeys in Spain and Portugal?

Graham Greene's Journeys in Spain and Portugal by Flor is 369 pages long, and a total of 95,571 words.

This makes it 125% the length of the average book. It also has 117% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Graham Greene's Journeys in Spain and Portugal Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 42 minutes to read Graham Greene's Journeys in Spain and Portugal aloud.

What Reading Level is Graham Greene's Journeys in Spain and Portugal?

Graham Greene's Journeys in Spain and Portugal is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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