Doctor Fischer Of Geneva Or The Bomb Party
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
At the heart of Graham Greene's darkly comic novella Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party lies a man consumed by contempt — a Swiss toothpaste magnate who stages elaborate, humiliating games for a group of wealthy sycophants he despises, testing just how much degradation the rich will endure for the promise of lavish gifts. The story is narrated by Alfred Jones, a middle-aged Englishman working in Geneva who falls in love with Fischer's estranged daughter, Anna-Luise, and finds himself drawn into the Doctor's cruel theatre of greed and power. Greene's prose is lean and merciless, stripping away the veneer of civilised society to expose the moral bankruptcy lurking beneath. Published in 1980, the novel stands as one of Greene's most concentrated and philosophically charged works, channelling his lifelong preoccupation with sin, guilt, and the corruption of the human spirit into a taut, parable-like narrative. The Bomb Party of the title — a final, lethal dinner where guests reach into crackers that may contain money or a live grenade — crystallises Greene's argument that greed is its own death wish. For readers who relish fiction that cuts to the bone with wit and moral precision, this is Greene at his most surgically devastating.
Author: Graham Greene
Format: Hardback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
At the heart of Graham Greene's darkly comic novella Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party lies a man consumed by contempt — a Swiss toothpaste magnate who stages elaborate, humiliating games for a group of wealthy sycophants he despises, testing just how much degradation the rich will endure for the promise of lavish gifts. The story is narrated by Alfred Jones, a middle-aged Englishman working in Geneva who falls in love with Fischer's estranged daughter, Anna-Luise, and finds himself drawn into the Doctor's cruel theatre of greed and power. Greene's prose is lean and merciless, stripping away the veneer of civilised society to expose the moral bankruptcy lurking beneath. Published in 1980, the novel stands as one of Greene's most concentrated and philosophically charged works, channelling his lifelong preoccupation with sin, guilt, and the corruption of the human spirit into a taut, parable-like narrative. The Bomb Party of the title — a final, lethal dinner where guests reach into crackers that may contain money or a live grenade — crystallises Greene's argument that greed is its own death wish. For readers who relish fiction that cuts to the bone with wit and moral precision, this is Greene at his most surgically devastating.