’Oh, of course, one accepts the Gospels, naturally’: Subversive Use of the Bible in Graham Greene’s Monsignor Quixote

When Graham Greene wrote Monsignor Quixote (published in 1982), one of his aims was to reflect critically on the role of the Catholic Church in the Spain of the late 1970s, as well as on the support this institution offered to the former dictatorship of Franco within the so called ‘National Catholi...

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Main Author:	Beatriz Valverde
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Published:	University of Tartu Press 2020-06-01
Series:	Interlitteraria
Subjects:	Graham Greene Monsignor Quixote Spanish Catholic Church Bible intertextuality Spain’s transition to democracy
Online Access:	https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/IL/article/view/16637

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’Oh, of course, one accepts the Gospels, naturally’: Subversive Use of the Bible in Graham Greene’s Monsignor Quixote

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