After the third trip, his journalism on Haiti’s situation under Duvalier made a fourth visit impossible, and the publication of The Comedians, with its depiction of corrupt, bumbling statesmanship and cruel secret policing, would earn him a litany of insults from Haiti’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Comedians is set in Haiti, which Greene visited twice before Doctor Duvalier’s despotic regime began in 1957, and once after. After A Burnt-Out Case Greene felt like one, writing that in his early sixties he “had reached an age when another full-length novel was probably beyond my powers”, but he would deliver another eight, starting out with this excellent and elegiac work. The Comedians, published in 1966, was Graham Greene’s nineteenth novel, following A Burnt-Out Case after an unusually long interim of six years.
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