"Graham Greene as a literary witness of the twentieth century: reflections on the later novels." Besançon: Presses de l'université de Franche-Comté, 2014, 199-208.

G. Greene has lived almost the whole Twentieth Century and has transcribed the most important and often dramatic events of the century in his fiction: from Stamboul Train, a book dealing with the difficult situation of Jugoslavia in the decades before the Second World, to the religious problems involving Mexico in his masterpiece The Power and the Glory, up to the effects of the Second World War with bombs, amnesias, or apparent deaths in London, as in the novel The End of the Affair, or in a Paris, invaded by the Nazis in The Tenth Man, or in a Vienna, occupied by the Allies in The Third Man. But he reports not only the European, but also the international changes: respectively in Our Man in Havana and in The Quiet American he forecasts the loss of power (of Batista) in Cuba and of the French in Indochina; The Comedians deals with the guerrilla band in Haiti. In The Honorary Consul, the guerrilla band and the main character will be killed because of the unstable governments in South America. In his last novel, The Captain and the Enemy, Greene succeeds in focusing the spiritually poor society in Europe and in Panama, while, as a screenplay writer, he stresses the growing importance of the cinema and of its heroes. In his last story, “The Last Word”, he stresses the lack of spirituality and religious belief involving our society at the end of the century.