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Greeneland|ˈgriːnlænd|
[f. the name Greene (see prec.) + land n.; with a pun on Greenland.]
A term used to describe the world of depressed seediness reputedly typical of the setting and characters of the novels of Graham Greene.
1940A. C. Marshall in Horizon May 369 ‘The seedy level!’ That is the location of Greeneland. 1966D. Lodge Graham Greene 3 Over Clapham Common solitary walkers move with bowed heads through the slanting rain..in West Africa the laterite roads turn a fragile pink at sundown, then are swallowed by darkness. These are some characteristic scenes from a country of the mind known internationally as Greeneland. 1970G. Greene Brighton Rock p. x, Some critics have referred to a strange violent ‘seedy’ region of the mind..which they call Greeneland, and I have sometimes wondered whether they go round the world blinkered. ‘This is Indo-China,’ I want to explain, ‘this is Mexico, this is Sierra Leone carefully and accurately described. I have been a newspaper correspondent as well as a novelist.’ |