ВЫСШЕГО ПРОФЕССИОНАЛЬНОГО ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ
«МЕЖДУНАРОДНЫЙ ИНСТИТУТ МЕНЕДЖМЕНТА ЛИНК»
Факультет лингвистики
Кафедра лингвистики
ИНТЕРПРЕТАЦИЯ ТЕКСТА
Студент:
Граева Е.Б.
5 курс заочное отделение __________________
(подпись)
Преподаватель МИМ ЛИНК:
Петришина Е.Ю. __________________
(подпись)
Дата сдачи:
«___»__ 2015г.
Оценка: _____________
Жуковский
2015
Proof Positive
The text under analysis is Proof Positive, it is a short piece of fiction written by Henry Graham Greene. Henry Graham Greene, was an English novelist, a short-story writer, a playwright and a journalist and the author regarded as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. Graham Greene was one of the most widely read novelist of the 20th-century. Adventure and suspense are constant elements in his novels and many of his books have been made into successful films.
The themes that dominate Graham Greene's novels are fear, pity and violence, pursuit, betrayal and man's restless search for salvation.
Greene was born into a large, influential family. He was unhappy at the school. Bullied and profoundly depressed, he made several suicide attempts, including, as he wrote in his autobiography, by Russian roulette and by taking aspirin before going swimming in the school pool. At the age of 16 he was sent for psychoanalysis for six months in London These are the reasons why he had chosen these topics in his fiction and that is a horizontal context of the story Proof Positive.
Combining literary acclaim with widespread popularity, Greene had acquired a reputation early in his own lifetime as a great writer, both of serious Catholic novels and of thrillers (or "entertainments" as he termed them); however, even though shortlisted in 1967, he was never awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Through 67 years of writings which included over 25 novels, he explored the ambivalent moral and political issues of the