《Inner Me》 - Inner Me

…At Oxford University, he briefly sympathized with Communism, but soon became disillusioned and converted to Catholicism in 1926. He initially pursued a career as a journalist, but was recognized for his novel, “I Am Within” (1929), which featured a man who escaped from a smuggling ring as the protagonist, and presented ethical and religious issues in a sort of thriller style, while also making full use of the techniques of modern psychological fiction. After this, he published serious novels such as “The Battlefield” (1934) and “England Made Me” (1935), as well as more thriller-like novels that Greene himself called “entertainment pieces,” such as “The Stamford Express” (1932), “Gun for Sale” (1936), “The Secret Agent” (1939), and “The Ministry of Fear” (1943), which showed a kind of scathing criticism of civilization. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "the inner self" are listed below.

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…オックスフォード大学時代は一時共産主義に共鳴したが，まもなく幻滅し，1926年カトリックに改宗した。初めはジャーナリストの道に進んだが，密輸団を逃げ出した男を主人公にして，一種スリラー仕立てながら，近代心理小説の手法も十分に活用して倫理的宗教的問題を提示した小説《内なる私》(1929)で認められた。この後《ここは戦場だ》(1934)，《英国が私をつくった》(1935)のような本格的な小説や，もっとスリラー性の濃い，グリーン自身が〈娯楽物〉と名づける《スタンブール特急》(1932)，《拳銃売ります》(1936)，《密使》(1939)，《恐怖省》(1943)などを次々と発表し，一種痛烈な文明批判を見せた。…

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