![]() Brown owns a hotel in Haiti during the oppressive government of Papa Doc Duvalier. The book opens with Brown, Smith and Jones all on a boat headed toward Haiti. But also (not mentioned, but I think understood) that Greek Comedies were usually poking fun at the powerful of the age. He is using an older meaning of comedian, the idea that Greek actors held different masks. In a public conversation with a woman that Brown (the main character) is having an affair with, he suggests that they are all really comedians. It really was not until about 1/3 of the way through the book that Greene references the reason for the title. ![]() The book started and ended well, but there was some meandering in the middle that makes sense in the larger context of the books but I got a bored for a good 100 pages. That matched the content, but did not enhance the listening. It was really my desire to understand Endo, more than my enjoyment of the book that kept me listening to the audiobook. ![]() I started reading it because Shusaku Endo was frequently compared to Graham Greene (and Greene’s endorsement of Silence is one of the more famous endorsement lines–“Endo, to my mind, is one of the finest living novelists”). ![]() I picked up The Comedians when it was on sale at Audible because it was by Graham Greene and I really liked The End of the Affair. Life in the midst of tragedy is still life ![]()
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