Henry Green

This article is about the novelist Henry Green; on the politician, see Henry Dickinson Green .

Henry Green (born October 29, 1905 on Forthampton Court near Tewkesbury , † December 13, 1973 in London ; real name actually Henry Vincent Yorke ) was an English novelist . Between 1926 and 1952 Green published nine novels and one autobiographical work, in addition, short stories and essays were published by him in various newspapers and magazines.

Green is considered a writer who, although unknown to a larger readership, is revered by other writers for his masterful use of language and storytelling. After Virginia Woolf's death , he was considered by many to be the most important living British author of classical modernism . Writers who have independently considered him one of the best English-speaking authors of his generation include WH Auden , Eudora Welty , VS Pritchett , Rebecca West and John Updike . American author and essayist Terry Southern even went so far as to refer to Green as a "writer's writer's writer," a writer who is valued by writers who are revered by other writers. John Lehmann , who was the author of Henry Green at the British Hogarth Press , points out, among other things, that Green has a specific style of language, which consists mainly of simple words, and that Green sometimes uses an idiosyncratic syntax that initially leads a reader to suspect can read the work of a beginner. Only gradually does the reader discover this as a conscious mode of expression, behind which great humor is hidden and which elevates numerous passages of his works to the state of pure poetry.

Green's best-known works include the novel Der Butler , published in 1945, which thematizes life on an Irish country estate during the Second World War and depicts this primarily from the perspective of the servants. The death of the old butler at the beginning of the plot is the starting point of an increasingly anarchic mismanagement in which everyone is concerned about their own advantage. The British newspaper The Guardian included the novel in its 2009 list of 1000 novels everyone should have read. The Time chose him as one of the 100 best English-language novels published 1923 to 2005, and 2015 selected 82 international literary critics and scholars it one of the most important British novels . The critic Robert McCrum, however, in his list of the 100 best English-language novels compiled for the Guardian, preferred the previously published novel The Society's Journey (first published in 1939).

family

Henry Green comes from a wealthy family. He was the youngest of three sons of Vincent Wodehouse Yorke and Maud Evelyn Wyndham. Green's ancestors on his father's side include the Dutch-French writer Isabelle de Charrière , and his grandfather Reginald Yorke, who married one of her descendants, was a wealthy landowner in Gloucestershire and a member of Parliament. Henry Green's father was a student at Eton College , who subsequently studied at King's College , Cambridge, and worked as an archaeologist in Greece and the Middle East. Vincent Wodehouse Yorke gave up this career at the beginning of his marriage. He expanded a coppersmith's shop in Holborn that his father had bought into the successful company Pontifex, which manufactured boilers for breweries and copper pipes for sanitary facilities.

Green's mother, Maud, was the daughter of Henry Wyndham, 2nd Baron Leconfield , one of the wealthiest members of the British aristocracy and the owner of Petworth House , a large Sussex mansion. The family has played a role in British history since the Middle Ages. George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont , great-grandfather of his mother, was an agricultural reformer and art patron who promoted William Turner and for his ancestral home Petworth House paintings and sculptures by other contemporary British artists Joshua Reynolds , William Hogarth , John Constable and George Romney as well as sculptures by John Flaxman acquired. Maud's uncle Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, was British Prime Minister in 1894/1895, and Herbert Henry Asquith , Prime Minister from 1908 to 1916, was married to one of Maud's cousins.

Life

childhood

Green's mother led the typical country life of a British aristocrat who spent a lot of time with her horses and dogs and was otherwise involved in the church and the neighboring community. Green was brought up by a nanny and other servants , and he usually saw his mother between five and six in the evening. The family's extensive domestic staff also included a butler, two servants, an errand boy, a cook, a kitchen maid, a dishwashing maid, five house maids and the mother's maid. The father spent the week in Birmingham taking care of the family business. The family lived in London from March to August, the time of the balls and social gatherings, but usually returned to Forthampton on the weekends. Green spent parts of his childhood in his grandfather's mansion, where he got to know relics of traditional manners, which were antiquated in his day. Even after the end of the First World War, male guests on Petworth were expected to appear for dinner in white bow ties and tails. Guests who did not have this increasingly unusual evening wear in their luggage were advised to change the valet. In one of his first narrative vignettes, which Green presumably wrote during the school holidays spent at Petworth, he fantasizes what would happen if a giant suddenly appeared on the property: the first thing to do was his uncle Charles, the 3rd Baron Leconfield the giant send the butler Wickham over. The giant would throw the butler into the lake, which Charles would comment on with the short eulogy "Wickham was a good servant". It would soon turn out, however, that Butler Wickham had the cellar key with him and that one of the family's last escape routes was blocked from the giant. Charles's piety would now turn into angry remark that despite all instructions, it was impossible to train servants to keep keys on accessible hooks.

Boarding school and studies

Magdalen College , the college Green attended at Oxford

Green was first sent to school at New Beacon boarding school, where he met Anthony Powell , with whom he remained friendly for a long time. Both then went to the elite Eton College , a boys' boarding school. Green began to work on his first novel being blind (first published in 1926) while at Eton. Both Vincent and Maud Yorke were hesitant about their youngest son's writing ambitions. When Green was eighteen, Maud sent some of his stories to John Buchan , a writer friend of his family. Buchan's feedback was thoroughly positive, even if Green was later convinced that Buchan had panned his early works.

Green left Eton in the spring of 1924 and spent the following summer in France. He then went to Oxford like his friend Anthony Powell and became a student at Magdalen College . From his third semester onwards he chose English language and literature as his main focus, and the Irish writer and literary scholar CS Lewis became his professor , with whom Green was by no means on good terms. In Oxford he also met Evelyn Waugh , with whom he remained connected for the rest of his life in friendly competition.

First novel

Because of his connections, Green had the opportunity to give his manuscript to Edward Garnett . The influential publishing editor, who worked with Joseph Conrad , DH Lawrence , Dorothy Richardson and EM Forster , among others , praised the work, made a few deletions and helped Green find a publisher. Since Green was still a minor, his father had to sign the contract and did so despite considerable doubts. As one of the first signs of public recognition, he was invited to the gatherings of Lady Ottoline Morrell , which included guests such as Aldous Huxley , Katherine Mansfield , Leonard and Virginia Woolf , Bertrand Russell and Siegfried Sassoon . Otherwise, his first novel received little attention from British literary critics. In the US, The Times Literary Supplement praised the novel, and The New Republic highlighted the novel's psychological realism. This critical praise and the encouragement from his friends kept him writing.

Green found his studies at Oxford increasingly unsatisfactory. Many people from his circle, such as Anthony Powell and Evelyn Waugh, taught or worked in publishing houses, Robert Byron worked on a book on Byzantine history and Harold Acton now lived in continental Europe. In a letter to his mother he also confessed that he was suffering from the pressure of academic work at Oxford and indicated to her that he would like to gain experience in his own company in Birmingham. He admitted to his father that it was important to him first to gain experience as a worker. He also admitted that he was in the process of planning another novel to be set in the working class.

Entry into father's company

Birmingham in the early 1930s

Green began to work as a warehouse clerk in his father's factory in January 1927. He lived in an old Victorian tenement in a poorer part of the city that was dominated by artisans. As before at Oxford, he often went to the cinema. He compared the novel he was working on, which was characterized by comparatively short paragraphs, to an incoherent movie. However, Green sees his biographer Treglown also strongly influenced by the works of Honoré de Balzac and Émile Zola during this period . A story like Excursion , which tells of how people wait for their connections at the train station and become anxious and argumentative, also reflects this.

While Edward Garnett urged him to take his time with the novel and not to give in to the publishing pressure after the next novel, he began with Anthony Powell to advertise the sisters Adelaide "Dig" and Mary Biddulph. The sisters belonged to the British upper class and were distantly related to the Yorke family. They both fell in love with Green, but it was Dig that Green began to associate with as he continued working on his novel Living . Immediately after its publication in 1929, he moved to London, where he wanted to work in the administrative headquarters of his father's company in the future, and he and "Dig" married at the end of July of that year. They moved into a Regency-era house near London's Hyde Park.

Although Green occasionally talked about giving up his work for his father's company Pontifex and living on his inheritance, Green found the daily routine of office work stabilizing. He also found it far less tiring than writing novels. Friends like Evelyn Waugh, Robert Byron and Harold Acton had positive reviews of Green's new novel, but most influential British publications largely ignored it. However, a number of established authors published works that year so it was difficult to attract the attention of critics and reading audiences. Well-known English-language authors whose novels came out in 1929 included Richard Aldington , Robert Graves , JB Priestley , Ernest Hemingway , John Buchan, Rebecca West and RC Sherriff , with translations by Thomas Mann and Italo Svevo .

Economic crisis and World War II

It took 10 years for The Society's Journey , Green's next novel, to hit the UK book market. Green had been working on the novel since 1930, but the Great Depression hit the Pontifex company as well, and Green found it increasingly difficult to find time to write while doing office work. In 1934 Sebastian, the son of "Dig" and Green, was born. Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon , at the time still Duchess of York , became one of the patent owners . At the same time, Living's sales had dropped to just 10 copies a year. Although his publisher Dent had expressed interest in a new novel to Green, he sent the manuscript for The Society Trip back to Green in 1938 with the note that he was not sure whether he would be able to successfully publish this novel.

A firefighters unit fights fires in London following bombings

Meanwhile a war seemed inevitable. In 1938, Henry Green signed up for the then newly founded Auxiliary Fire Service (AFS), a volunteer fire brigade that was established in Great Britain before the Second World War in order to be able to eliminate the consequences of the bombing in the event of an air raid. There were different motives that moved 33-year-old Henry Green to volunteer for it. On the one hand he wanted to avoid being drafted into the army, on the other hand he had to think about the family business. A service at AFS should enable him to continue to look after the company. Green was assigned to the City of Westminster , the force was stationed near Grosvenor Square . Many of his colleagues at AFS were servants and hotel staff because of this catchment area. Meanwhile, "Dig" moved with their son Sebastian to a country estate outside London, where they were safer from bombing.

Green also began an affair with the writer Rosamond Lehmann , whom he had met at Elizabeth Bowen's house. It was also Rosamond Lehmann who suggested that Green send his manuscript for The Society's Journey to Leonard Woolf and John Lehmann , who jointly ran the Hogarth Press . Since Leonard Woolf could not initially decide to publish the novel, Lehmann suggested that the novel be forwarded to Christopher Isherwood . Isherwood was very pleased with the manuscript. The company trip received good reviews and sold 1285 copies during the first twelve months after publication, which was acceptable for the time. Hogarth Press was even able to make a small profit from it.

Green processed his dangerous service at the AFS in a series of short stories that Green published in John Lehmann's magazine Pinguin New Writing . John Updike later wrote of the short stories that they brought the inferno of London, which had been so badly hit by the Battle of Britain, close with great virtuosity. This was followed by the novel Caught , which also takes place in bombed-out London and whose main protagonists are members of a fire brigade. The novel was published by Hogarth Press in 1943. At that time, it was the RAF and USAF planes that were bombing cities in Germany.

The butler and the end of World War II

Even before Caught hit the UK book market, Green was working on his next novel. In December 1943 he already had a draft of 25,000 words. Green revised the novel in the summer of 1944 and handed the manuscript to his publisher, Hogarth Press, in October. John Lehmann , who ran the publishing house together with Leonard Woolf , was convinced from the start that Green had written a masterpiece. The butler is set on a country estate inhabited by the British in neutral Ireland against the backdrop of World War II. The novel is mostly told from the perspective of the almost exclusively British servants who fear both an invasion of neutral Ireland by German troops and an attack by the IRA.

Green later said repeatedly that he had the idea for the novel while talking to a member of his fire brigade who had previously worked as a second servant on a country estate. He reported that one day the butler of this country estate confessed the following to him:

"I enjoy nothing more [...] than lying in bed on Sunday morning with the window open, listening to the church bells and eating buttered toast with fingers that smell of cunt."

From the point of view of Green's biographer Jeremy Treglown, this anecdote expresses the attitude of negligence, opportunism and irresponsibility that also characterize the protagonists of the novel. With the death of the butler right at the beginning of the novel, the household is deprived of any person of authority, and the country estate, which is now only unwillingly and incompetently run by the tenant's mother, gradually slips into increasingly anarchic conditions. The novel is widely believed to be the culmination of Green's oeuvre.

Green also began work on his next novel, Back , before The Butler hit the bookstores. John Lehman, again the publisher of the novel, insisted on some editorial interventions, Green himself found it increasingly difficult to bring it to a conclusion after he had initially progressed very quickly with the work on the novel. The novel received some very critical reviews after it was published; in a review for the Spectator , the Irish writer Kate O'Brien called it a tale overshadowed by sadness and worry, which, although artistic, could not appeal to all readers. Green's biographer Treglown also describes the work as the least successful in Green's oeuvre.

The failure of his latest novel made Greene, who had been considered the most adventurous writer in Great Britain since the death of Virginia Woolf , increasingly doubted himself. In March 1947 he wrote to a friend that he had taken a break from writing and that he hoped that this time would last for three to four years. At the same time, the publishing partnership between John Lehman and Leonard Woolf ended. Lehman founded his own publishing house, but Greene remained loyal to the Hogarth Press, which promised new editions of Green's earlier novels. The move was quite unusual: John Lehman had promoted Green for years, and Green not only had doubts about the continued existence of the Hogarth Press, but also feared that, given the continued paper management, Leonard Woolf would primarily publish the novels of his late wife. At the same time, the family business began to get more orders again as British breweries began catching up on the investments they had postponed during the Second World War. However, taxes had been raised drastically in post-war Great Britain, so that Green's income situation improved only slightly due to the brief success of the company.

The last novels

It was only two years after Black's failure before Green published another novel. Twilight (English original title: Concluding ) appeared at the end of November 1948 and is considered Green's most satirical work. The time for action is the early 21st century. As in The Butler, the setting of the novel is a country estate, albeit not one that is inhabited by a wealthy family. There is a futuristic girls' school located there, whose students are being prepared to become civil servants in a bureaucratic and somewhat totalitarian state. A now retired scientist lives in a small house surrounded by azaleas on the grounds of the country estate with a goose, a pig and a cat, as well as a granddaughter who falls in love with one of the teachers at the girls' school. Jealousy of his granddaughter's lover and dealing with one's own impermanence are the motives of the plot. The reviews were more positive this time, the Christmas edition of the Times Literary Supplement even devoted an extensive essay to Green, in which all of his previously published works were discussed and his technical uniqueness was highlighted. The Butler was released in the USA in 1949 and attracted a lot of attention there. The Time fascinated aristocratic descent of a writing under the pseudonym writer, also gave him an article.

Green, now in his 40s, found his life increasingly unsatisfactory despite these successes. Both he and his wife had relationships outside of their marriage. Green increasingly lost his hearing and also had a growing problem with alcohol. This is also reflected in some of the narratives Green wrote during this period in which the abuse of alcohol by a husband and the increasing rejection of this excessive drinking by the wife are recurring themes.

Nothing (English original title: Nothing ), Green's next novel, written almost exclusively in dialogue form, reflects to a very large extent the life situation of the author: A man in his forties has an affair with a 29-year-old woman, and they are like all other characters in the plot People who were once wealthy but who suddenly found themselves in a completely different financial situation in post-war Britain. Reviews were split immediately after the book was published, but writer Paul Bailey described this and Green's final novel as his most brilliant works. The main characters of love games (English original title: Doting ), the last novel published during Green's lifetime, reflect Green's family life. The main characters are Arthur and Diana Middleton: he is a businessman in his forties who is too plump, drinks too much and whose health is in bad shape. Diana, on the other hand, is a housewife. Their only son Peter goes to an expensive boarding school. The novel was published in May 1952 and was a comparatively great success. Time and Tide even called it Green's best novel.

End of life

The 1950s were increasingly shaped by a different generation of British authors who had a different social and, above all, less privileged background than Green and his contemporaries. Kingsley Amis ' novel Glück für Jim hit the book market in 1954. Malcolm Bradbury noted that happiness for Jim changed British literature in the 1950s in much the same way that John Osborne's contemporaneous play Looking Back in Anger changed British theater literature . Bradbury attributes a similar influence on British literature to Amis as Evelyn Waugh had on British literature of the 1920s. In English literature criticism Amis was with his first novel Lucky Jim , together with Philip Larkin ( Jill , 1946; A girl in winter , 1947), John Wain ( down Hurry on , 1953) and Iris Murdoch ( Under the net , 1954) the group of Attributed to novelists of the so-called Movement . They reflect the social and cultural changes that resulted from the dissolution of the British Empire and the establishment of the welfare state as well as the blurring of class antagonisms and the associated loss of self-identification. Similarities also exist here in the way in which social, literary and also personal questions are thematized, namely in a realistic and unpathetic as well as satirical or ironic-critical form. Green had anticipated much of this movement, but he was no longer a figure that stood out from his literary environment.

Green became increasingly deaf, his alcohol abuse got worse, he collapsed in 1957, and in 1959 he was finally persuaded to step down from the board of the family business. Green was increasingly asked for interviews in the late 1950s, and many of his novels were translated, but his literary work was increasingly limited to short works for the radio. Green no longer felt able to take on the challenges of yet another novel. Raymond Carr , who met Green around this time, stated that, like F. Scott Fitzgerald, he drinks because he cannot write, and he cannot write because he drinks. From 1960 until his death in 1973 he was largely disabled and spent long periods in hospital. Green died of pneumonia in the winter of 1973.

Green and other authors

Eudora Welty

Green and the American writer Eudora Welty, who is not only considered one of the best writers in the South but also one of the best American writers of the 20th century, only met in person in 1950. In April of that year Welty was in Great Britain on a promotional tour for her short story collection The Golden Apples (English original title: The Golden Apples ) and met Green there. She had read The Butler on the voyage to Great Britain , was extremely impressed by the novel, which was causing quite a stir in the United States at the time, and excited to meet the author.

The next day Welty visited Green in his London home on Trevor Place for a lengthy conversation. Welty noted afterwards that Green was an extremely attractive man who was characterized by a mixture of high spirits, humor and spontaneity. Welty then read all of Green's works and later wrote an essay on Green's works. This led to a lengthy correspondence between the two authors.

Evelyn Waugh

Green and the British writer Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) did socialize, the two married couples Waugh and Green even spent weekends together, but the authors were in constant competition with one another. Waugh's novel Reunion with Brideshead , which tells the collapse of the wealthy, Catholic aristocratic Marchmain family in England in the 1920s and 1930s from the perspective of the first-person narrator Charles Ryder, appeared almost at the same time as Green's novel The Butler , but shows a completely different attitude between the two Authors on aristocratic families. Waugh occasionally expressed disdain for works by Green: When Nancy Mitford praised Green's novel Nothing , Waugh stated that he did not believe in the work. The dialogues sound fake, Green is simply unable to write lifelike dialogues. Green's biographer Treglown states that Waugh's sometimes very violent and very personal attacks on Green can also be traced back to Waugh's fight against modernity. Waugh claimed, among other things, in a letter to Nancy Mitford that Green was the model for the character in Graham Greene's novel The End of an Affair, who was always frequenting pubs . Opposite Maurice Bowra Waugh Green even accused of being a secret communist. As evidence, he named his membership in the fire brigade, that in all of Green's works, social differences depended solely on monetary prosperity, his business connections to Russia and his disregard for manners.

Works

• Blindness. 1926.
  • Be blind. Steidl, Göttingen 1991.
• Living. 1929.
  • Life. Novel. With an afterword by John Updike . Steidl, Göttingen 1994.
• Party going. 1939.
  • The social journey. Novel. Steinhausen, Munich 1979.
• Pack my bag. 1940.
• Caught. 1943.
• Loving. 1945.
  • Love. Novel. Translated by Friedrich Burschell . (= Library Suhrkamp . 129). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1964.
    • The butler . Newly translated by Walter Schürenberg . Steidl, Göttingen 1988.
• Back. 1946.
• Concluding. 1950.
  • Dusk. Translated by Friedrich Burschell. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1953.
• Nothing. 1950.
  • Nothing. Novel. Steidl, Göttingen 1993.
• Doting. 1952.
  • Crush. Novel. Translated by Friedrich Burschell. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1954.
    • Love games. Newly translated by Werner Horch . Steidl, Göttingen 1987
• Surviving. The Uncollected Writings of Henry Green. 1992.

literature

• Edward Stokes: The novels of Henry Green. The Hogarth Press, London 1959.
• Keith C. Odom: Henry Green. Twayne, Boston 1978, ISBN 0-8057-6706-1 .
• John Lehmann : Henry Vincent Yorke. In: John Sutherland (Ed.): Literary Lives - Intimate Biographies of the Famous by the Famous . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2002, ISBN 0-19-860642-7 .
• Michael North: Henry Green and the Writing of His Generation . University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville 1984, ISBN 0-8139-1028-5 .
• Materials for Henry Green and his novel “Gesellschaftreise” . Text by Terry Southern , Frank Kermode and Valentine Cunningham . Steidl, Göttingen 1990.
• Jeremy Treglown: Romancing. The Life and Work of Henry Green . Random House, New York 2000, ISBN 0-679-43303-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Henry Green in the catalog of the German National Library
• David Lodge: Writer's Writer's Writer . Review of Henry Green. In: The New York Review of Books. March 25, 1993.

Single receipts

1. ^ Lehmann: Henry Vincent Yorke. In: John Sutherland (Ed.): Literary Lives - Intimate Biographies of the Famous by the Famous. P. 366.
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