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The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
Anyone who has lived in London could put that forms a common Geographic centerpiece of the End of the Affair by Graham Greene. It does not matter if the place in particular thinks he is, because that's what happens in the house or near its periphery that is central for the book. And the relationship between man and woman, between classes, between the interests could be anywhere.
Maurice Bendrix is a resident of the suburb, the extremity of fashion, in the southern open space. He has rented rooms where he works on his writing. He is a novelist with several books and some critical praise your name. It is a passionate man, a skeptic anything, perhaps in every sense, and is less intriguing in the way he manipulates friends, acquaintances and probably no in order to carry out its investigation, and perhaps to ensure his other interests as well. It was during one such foray into the mind of a fictional civil servant I was trying to invent that he began to see Sarah Miles. She was the wife of a royal official and the case was built to get into the mind of her husband, though it took a more conventional initial route.
Sarah and Henry, her husband Mandarin ministry, living in a large property on the north side of the common fashion. One feels that, left entirely to their own devices, Maurice would not have a Great Deal in common with the lifestyle of the Miles family. But when he meets Sarah, is a passionate woman whose devotion to the institution of marriage does not correspond with the satisfaction that derives from it. Sarah frustrations are large, their needs are obvious, and the subject turns to Maurice.
His passionate, highly physical affair lasts several years. One day in 1944, however, a bomb land robot out of the house of Mauritius and he is wounded in the blast. Sarah initially believed dead. Then, somehow, their relationship ends, perhaps because she seems almost disappointed that he has survived. They see nothing of each other for two years.
Maurice, of course, assumes that she has moved to pastures richer, more innovative another lover who can satisfy their demands for new forms, less committed. It hires a private detective to check on him. Talk to your husband and others that it is aware. What he discovers is a surprising change of direction in his life and priorities, a change that neither he nor Sarah's husband can explain or accept.
In short The End Of The Affair is about the space between people. Relationships are always limited, no matter how intimately shared. The common geographical space between Mauritius and Sarah, becomes a symbol of the no man's land that must be crossed when people interact. We enter this territory if we intend is to go part-way to satisfy the psyche of another, but perhaps never really leave. The territory can only be entered, but probably not cross when there is no reciprocity, at least partially shared desire to meet in the area unsafe. But it remains a position that can be collected, a space that can be abandoned at will.
But what emerges at the end of the matter is that this space is specific to particular relationships. Scratch the surface of a different association of the same person, and reveal a different territory, recognizable landmarks may not even share with the first. Perhaps, therefore, we project onto others what we want to be. Perhaps relationships are never very common, and still the best pragmatic and, more likely, ultimately selfish. In the end, the end of it suggests that they are not, but it is only a suggestion.
About the Author
Philip Spires
Author of Mission, an African novel set in Kenya
http://www.philipspires.co.uk
Michael, a missionary priest, has just killed Munyasya. It was an accident, but Mulonzya, a politician, exploits the tragedy for his own ends. Boniface, a church worker, has just lost his child. He did not make it to the hospital in time, possibly because Michael went to the Mission to retrieve a letter from Janet, a teacher, and the priest’s neighbour. It is Munyasya who has the last laugh, however.
