![]() ![]() “So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one’s days. ![]() Here’s one where he explains he cannot write when he is trapped in thinking of Sarah. It is Greene’s passages on writing that I enjoyed the most. Soon, he finds himself hiring a detective to watch her movements – a comic figure called Mr. He compares his obsession of imagining Sarah with other men to the act of writing a novel. But now Bendrix is convinced that she is having another affair.īendrix is a writer and Sarah’s new love-affair becomes his new obsession. The narration of the novel was absolutely frantic- it’s an almost solipsistic account of Maurice Bendrix’s passionate love-affair with Sarah, the wife of a conscientious but rather boring civil servant Henry Miles.Īs the book begins, Bendrix and Sarah have been apart for two years. There is certainly monstrous egotism involved. The End of the Affair is a deeply weird book. ![]() In misery, we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism” “The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. ![]()
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