La breve visita de Graham Greene a México en el invierno de 1937-38 fue muy productiva: el escritor redactó una serie de reportajes, dos cuentos, un libro de viajes titulado Caminos sin ley y una novela magistral, El poder y la gloria.
LOS CAMINOS DE GREENE es un documental dramatizado dirigido a recrear la novela y contrastarla con la experiencia de Greene en aquel puritano estado de Tabasco donde estaban prohibidos el alcohol y la religión católica. Es una historia acerca de los conflictos de la Revolución Mexicana con la Iglesia. Y, se centra, en el drama íntimo de un sacerdote alcohólico que trata de escapar en la selvas de Tabasco a la persecución religiosa que esta teniendo lugar.
Este docudrama explora las fuentes de la creatividad de Graham Greene como novelista en el trópico mexicano.
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Graham Greene’s brief visit to Mexico during the winter of 1937 was a very productive one. In addition to several short stories and newspaper articles, Greene wrote a travel book titled Lawless Roads, as well as the renowned novel The Power and the Glory. These narratives center on the conflict of ideas between the Mexican Revolution and the Catholic Church.
Greene’s Roads (Los Caminos de Greene) is a dramatized documentary adaptation of Graham’s two books.
Produced in the tropical rainforest of the Mexican state of Tabasco, the story focuses on the inner conflicts of an alcoholic priest in his attempt to escape the religious persecution prevailing in Mexico at the time.
This docudrama provides a contrast between the sources of Greene’s creativity and the reality of Mexican religious and historical transformations that took place during the 1930s and 1940s. |