The Power and the Glory

中文名：
权力与荣耀
作者：
格拉汉姆·格林 Graham Greene
类型：
小说经典
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How does good spoil, and how can bad be redeemed? In his penetrating novel The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene explores corruption and atonement through a priest and the people he encounters. In the 1930s one Mexican state has outlawed the Church, naming it a source of greed and debauchery. The priests have been rounded up and shot by firing squad--save one, the whisky priest. On the run, and in a blur of alcohol and fear, this outlaw meets a dentist, a banana farmer, and a village woman he knew six years earlier. For a while, he is accompanied by a toothless man--whom he refers to as his Judas and does his best to ditch. Always, an adamant lieutenant is only a few hours behind, determined to liberate his country from the evils of the church.

On the verge of reaching a safer region, the whisky priest is repeatedly held back by his vocation, even though he no longer feels fit to perform his rites: "When he was gone it would be as if God in all this space between the sea and the mountains ceased to exist. Wasn't it his duty to stay, even if they despised him, even if they were murdered for his sake? even if they were corrupted by his example?"

As his sins and dangers increase, the broken priest comes to confront the nature of piety and love. Still, when he is granted a reprieve, he feels himself sliding into the old arrogance, slipping it on like the black gloves he used to wear. Greene has drawn this man--and all he encounters--vividly and viscerally. He may have said The Power and the Glory was "written to a thesis," but this brilliant theological thriller has far more mysteries--and troubling ideals--than certainties.

　　格雷厄姆·格林最受专家推崇也最受读者赞誉的小说之一，也是他最不“英国”的一部小说，以作者1938年三、四月间在墨西哥度过的两个月经历为基础创作，而这两个月中有五星期是独自一人、筋疲力尽的穿梭于南部塔巴斯科和恰帕斯两周。包含着非英国式的罗马天主教因素，同时又满浸摩尼教式的黑暗和对磨难的忠实描绘，堪称格林最具雄心的作品。

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