autobiographical

AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL THEORY

~ the author can simply represent the ideas or the transparency but also he or she can amplify or exaggerate the idea.

~ an autobiographical criticism is a form of literary criticism which analyzes a writer's biography to show the relationship between the author's life an their works of literature. Autobiographical criticism is often associated with Historical-Biographical criticism, a critical, a critical method that "sees a literary work chiefly, if not exclusively, as a reflection of its author's life and times."

THE END OF THE AFFAIRS (1951)- Graham Greene

The novel focuses on Maurice Bendrix, a rising writer during World War II in London, and Sarah Miles, the wife of an impotent civil servant. Bendrix is loosely based on Greene himself, and he reflects often on the act of writing a novel. Sarah is based loosely on Greene's mistress at the time, Catherine Walston, to whom the book is dedicated.

Bendrix and Sarah fall in love quickly, but he soon realizes that the affair will end as quickly as it began. The relationship suffers from his overt and admitted jealousy. He is frustrated by her refusal to divorce Henry, her amiable but boring husband. When a bomb blasts Bendrix's flat as he is with Sarah, he is nearly killed. After this, Sarah breaks off the affair with no apparent explanation.

Later, Bendrix is still wracked with jealousy when he sees Henry crossing the Common that separates their flats. Henry has finally started to suspect something, and Bendrix decides to go to a private detective to discover Sarah's new lover. Through her diary, he learns that, when she thought he was dead after the bombing, she made a promise to God not to see Bendrix again if He allowed him to live again. Greene describes Sarah's struggles. After her sudden death from a lung infection brought to a climax by walking on the Common in the rain, several miraculous events occur, advocating for some kind of meaningfulness to Sarah's faith. By the last page of the novel, Bendrix may have come to believe in a God as well, though not to love Him.

The End of the Affair is the fourth and last of Greene's explicitly Catholic novels

CRITICISM:

The novel is said to be an autobiographic literature because it somehow relate to the life of the author Graham Greene.

The novel examines the obsession, jealousy, and discernment of the three characters: Maurice Brendix a writer during the world war II, Sarah Miles the wife, and Henry Miles a civil servant.

The novel is dedicated to the author's mistress Catherine Walston. and Sarah in the novel portrayed Catherine.

The author probably wrote this novel because of his depression on his wife, the novel obviously depicts the life of the author. He wrote it similarly to what just happening to his life