Graham Greene The Comedians

About The Comedians

Graham Greene's The Comedians (1966) is his most politically engaged novel — the story of Brown, a failing hotel owner in Duvalier's Haiti, who becomes reluctantly involved with opponents to the Tonton Macoute. Organized around the distinction between those who are committed (who believe in something) and those who are merely 'comedians' (who play roles without conviction), it is Greene's most direct engagement with the relationship between political violence and individual moral choice.