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The Honorary Consul was published in 1973, thirteen years after A Burnt-Out Case; yet time did not temper Greene’s preoccupation with the concept of fatherhood which reverberates throughout this novel as it did in the previous ones. Most of the action unfolds through the consciousness of Doctor Eduardo Plarr, but the reader is constantly called upon to correct Plarr’s interpretation of what happens to him, for Plarr — like all of Greene’s protagonists — does not seem to understand himself very well.
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© 1988 Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan
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Erdinast-Vulcan, D. (1988). The Honorary Father The Honorary Consul. In: Graham Greene’s Childless Fathers. Macmillan Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09013-6_8
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