• Dr. Chandra Bhushan Varde

Postmodernist use ‘magical realism’ as outlandish and inexplicable elements of surprise or shock. Greene includes pleasant or scaring dreams or surprising events in his fiction for the similar purpose reflecting troubled past, uncertain future, hidden fears, desires and inner conflict of his characters. In Brighton Rock Pinkie’s dreams prompt his revenge; and reminds his parent’s acts embittering his sex-life. Dreams in Greene’s narratives provide him freedom from rigidity of time. He got the concept of ‘precognitive dreams’ from John William Dunne that they truly foretell the future. In The Heart of the Matter a snake in dream symbolizes sexual or other temptation. Probably it forecasts the future events related to sexual temptation that Scobie could come across. In his dreams fear of Louise’s suicide haunts him. In The Human factor dreams haunt Castle after his colleague’s death; he and his black wife have nightmare of racial discrimination. In the End of the Affair Greene has tactfully used time-shifts technique; moving the narrative backward and forward. The events created with ‘magical realism’ after Sarah’s death enable Greene to anoint her to ‘sainthood’ with all her sin and sacrilege. It suits his objective to bring faith through unfaith and salvation through sin.

Precognitive dreams, inexplicable events. déjà-vu, ‘meta-narrative’, simulacra

" Magical Realism in Graham Greene’s Catholic Novels", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.342-346, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907H52.pdf

" Magical Realism in Graham Greene’s Catholic Novels", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp342-346, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907H52.pdf