The Unliteral Construct: the Architecture of Graham Greene's 'The Destructors'

Rodger, Johnny

The Unliteral Construct: the Architecture of Graham Greene's 'The Destructors'

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Rodger, Johnny (2019) The Unliteral Construct: the Architecture of Graham Greene's 'The Destructors'. In: The Routledge Companion to Architecture, Literature and the City. Routledge Companions . Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 96-103. ISBN 9781472482730
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The Unliteral Construct: the Architecture of Graham Greene's 'The Destructors'

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Charley, Jonathan

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Rodger, Johnny

Abstract:

This chapter examines the action in Graham Greene’s short story The Destructors where in immediately post-war Britain a group of boys demolish a Christopher Wren house with their bare hands for no apparent reason. In a city littered with the ruins of war, Greene’s boys seem to play out an allegory of the wreckage of the social system. Can the result of their joint destructive efforts be considered as a ruin itself however, or are they engaged, as the author seems to hint, in some type of paradoxically creative enterprise which redefines the nature of the social?

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https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-on-Architecture-Literature-and-The-City/Charley/p/book/9781472482730

Uncontrolled Keywords:

Architecture, Literature, Wren, demolish, post-war, social system.

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Mackintosh School of Architecture

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1 December 2017

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1 January 2019