Prof. François Gallix (University of the Sorbonne, Paris) is one of two guest speakers at the Graham Greene International Festival 2009 who has been awarded a research fellowship at the Harry Ramsom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin (USA) in order to study the Graham Greene Collection.
So that he may complete his study of the centre’s manuscripts, letters and books concerning Greene and “The Empty Chair”, Prof. Gallix has been granted a one-month fellowship in the summer of 2010. In July 2009 the announcement of his discovery of this unfinished and unpublished manuscript, which was written when the author was only twenty-two years old, inspired a great deal of scholarly and public interest. His revelation led to extensive coverage on the BBC and in local, national and international media. Prof. Gallix’s work is important, because it breaks new ground in the study of the Greene’s life and work, because it enhances existing scholarship and reading, and because there is great interest in the writer within and beyond the academic community, as one may see from the extent of current reading of Greene and the extent of scholarly work on his writing and life.
A regular, respected and popular guest at the Festival, Prof. Gallix gave a conference paper at the Festival 2008 on “The Riddles of Graham Greene: Brighton Rock as a literary Catholic detective story”. In 2009 he delivered a short talk in a talk entitled “The Discovery of ‘The Empty Chair’” in which he explained his progress so far in preparation of the novella for serialisation in Strand magazine. His talk was summarised in a blog post on 1st November 2009. Given the significance of his work and the intensity of interest which it has aroused, Prof. Gallix will speak again to the Festival on 1st October 2010 on the title “Graham Greene’s Unpublished Material”.
So that he may complete his study of the centre’s manuscripts, letters and books concerning Greene and “The Empty Chair”, Prof. Gallix has been granted a one-month fellowship in the summer of 2010. In July 2009 the announcement of his discovery of this unfinished and unpublished manuscript, which was written when the author was only twenty-two years old, inspired a great deal of scholarly and public interest. His revelation led to extensive coverage on the BBC and in local, national and international media. Prof. Gallix’s work is important, because it breaks new ground in the study of the Greene’s life and work, because it enhances existing scholarship and reading, and because there is great interest in the writer within and beyond the academic community, as one may see from the extent of current reading of Greene and the extent of scholarly work on his writing and life.
A regular, respected and popular guest at the Festival, Prof. Gallix gave a conference paper at the Festival 2008 on “The Riddles of Graham Greene: Brighton Rock as a literary Catholic detective story”. In 2009 he delivered a short talk in a talk entitled “The Discovery of ‘The Empty Chair’” in which he explained his progress so far in preparation of the novella for serialisation in Strand magazine. His talk was summarised in a blog post on 1st November 2009. Given the significance of his work and the intensity of interest which it has aroused, Prof. Gallix will speak again to the Festival on 1st October 2010 on the title “Graham Greene’s Unpublished Material”.