The End of the Affair

Resumen del libro

"This is a record of hate far more than of love," writes Maurice Bendrix in the opening passages of The End of the Affair, and it is a strange hate indeed that compels him to set down the retrospective account of his adulterous affair with Sarah Miles a hate bred of a passion that ultimately lost out to God.

Now, a year after Sarah's death, Bendrix seeks to exorcise the persistence of passion by retracing its course from obsessive love to love-hate. At the start he believes he hates Sarah and her husband, Henry. By the end of the book, Bendrix's hatred has shifted to the God he feels has broken his life but whose existence he has at last come to recognize.

Originally published in 1951, The End of the Affair was acclaimed by William Faulkner as "for me one of the best, most true and moving novels of my time, in anybody's language."

Biografía del autor

Graham Greene nació en Inglaterra en 1904. Se licenció en Historia en Oxford y tras un inicio profesional como periodista y crítico (y una discreta colaboración con los servicios secretos británicos), se consolidó como uno de los más importantes escritores del siglo XX gracias a títulos como El americano impasible, Nuestro hombre en la Habana y El tercer hombre. William Golding lo describió como el mayor cronista de la ansiedad de su tiempo. Murió en Suiza, donde vivía, en 1991.