paul_cornelius 's review for:

The Human Factor by Graham Greene

3.0

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In this novel, it seems that Greene emphasizes its protagonist's (Castle) ever building frustration with confinement. This is true whether it be his past, his childhood or time in South Africa, his marriage, his mother, or his sense of debt to someone who once helped his African wife escape the apartheid authorities. But wherever he run, the walls simply close in further. Finally, at the end, in Moscow, his world has become so small and barren that he is only left to face himself in the mirror. Alone and defeated.

On one side note: the fate of Buller was immensely satisfying.