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The Lawless Roads (1939) (published as Another Mexico in the United States) is a travel account by Graham Greene, based on his 1938 trip to Mexico, to see the effects of the government's campaign of forced anti-Catholic secularization and how the inhabitants had reacted to the brutal anti-clerical purges of President Plutarco Elías ...
- Graham Greene
- United Kingdom
- 1939
- 1939
30 gen 2016 · Reading The Lawless Roads reminded me of a comment from Albert Camus from his notebooks: 'What gives value to travel is its fear. It is the fact that when we are so far from our own country we are siezed by a vague fear, and an instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits'.
25 giu 2022 · The lawless roads. Now with a new introduction by David Rieff, The Lawless Roads is the result of Graham Greene's expedition to Mexico in the late 1930s to report on how the inhabitants had reacted to the brutal anticlerical purges of President Calles.
29 mar 2022 · English. 224 pages ; 20 cm. In 1938, Greene was commissioned to visit Mexico to discover how the inhabitants had reacted to the brutal anti-clerical purges of President Calles. His journey and the experiences he had there were the inspiration for The Power and the Glory. Originally published: London: Longmans, 1939. Notes.
The Lawless Roads is a fascinating study of Greene’s journey. Beginning in Laredo on to Mexico City, Veracruz, Frontera, Palenque, Yajalon, Las Casas, Tuxfla, Oaxaca and back to Mexico City. He travels by car, bus, train, plane, burro and boat. Enduring some very uncomfortable experiences.
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In the late 1930s, Graham Greene was commissioned to visit Mexico to report on how the inhabitants had reacted to the brutal anticlerical purges of President Calles. The Lawless Roads is his spellbinding record of that journey.
In the late 1930s, Graham Greene was commissioned to visit Mexico to report on how the inhabitants had reacted to the brutal anticlerical purges of President Calles. The Lawless Roads is his...
