Obdarzony nadzwyczajnym słuchem Henry Green jest mistrzem języka potocznego. „Pochwyceni”, powieść z 1943 roku, czerpie z biografii autora, który służył w ochotniczej straży pożarnej w czasie przygotowań Wielkiej Brytanii do wojny. Narracja koncentruje się na stanie zawieszenia: między wojennym napięciem a miłosnymi zawirowaniami, poczuciem kurczącego się czasu a jego nadmiarem, pamięcią i niepamięcią. Na pierwszy plan wysuwają się relacje międzyludzkie, społeczne antagonizmy oraz osobiste traumy bohaterów, w tym Richarda Roego – strażaka, męża, ojca i kochanka, będącego alter ego autora. To dopiero druga powieść Greena, która ukazuje się w polskim przekładzie. Jego styl, pełen potocyzmów i eksperymentów, stanowi wyzwanie dla tłumacza. Dzięki przekładowi Marcina Szustra, Green, określany przez Jamesa Wooda jako „ostatni czarodziej języka angielskiego”, fascynuje również w polszczyźnie. Henry Green (1905–1973) to jeden z najciekawszych angielskich powieściopisarzy modernistycznych, którego twórczość w Polsce jest mało znana. Dotąd przetłumaczono jedynie „Kochając” w przekładzie Andrzeja Sosnowskiego. Wystan Hugh Auden nazywał Greena „najlepszym żyjącym powieściopisarzem angielskim”, a Eudora Welty chwaliła jego żywą wyobraźnię. Proza Greena wywołuje w czytelniku „obrazowy zawrót głowy”.
Henry Green Book order
Henry Green, the pseudonym of Henry Vincent Yorke, was a novelist celebrated for his exquisite portrayal of social nuances and interpersonal dynamics. His work is characterized by its deep psychological insight into characters and a keen observation of everyday life. Drawing from his experiences within industrial settings and personal life, Green masterfully translated these into his fiction. His distinctive style, often infused with subtle humor and irony, reveals the hidden motivations and feelings of his characters to the reader.






- 2023
- 2022
The book delves into the experiences of nearly a million Jews who became refugees after the establishment of Israel, highlighting their struggles against state-sanctioned discrimination and violence in the Middle East and North Africa. Through powerful personal testimonies and evocative photography, it recounts harrowing events like the Farhud in Iraq and community exoduses. The authors provide essential historical context and follow the journeys of some survivors who have rebuilt their lives in cities like London and New York, creating a poignant narrative of resilience amidst loss.
- 2021
Andrea Alciati and His Books of Emblems: a Biographical and Bibliographical Study
- 372 pages
- 14 hours of reading
- 2020
Surviving: Stories, Essays, Interviews
- 328 pages
- 12 hours of reading
Highlighting the unique literary contributions of Henry Green, this collection showcases a variety of his writings, including previously unpublished stories from the 1920s and 1930s, an account of his experiences in the London Fire Brigade during the Blitz, and a short play. It also features insightful journalism and a humorous interview by Terry Southern. Edited by Green's grandson, Matthew Yorke, the volume includes an Introduction by John Updike and a biographical memoir by Sebastian Yorke, offering a comprehensive look at Green's overlooked genius.
- 2017
Party Going
- 192 pages
- 7 hours of reading
A modernist "masterpiece" (The New York Times) that will appeal to fans of Downton Abbey and The Great Gatsby Party Going, published in 1939, is Henry Green’s darkly comic valediction to what W. H. Auden famously described as the “low dishonest decade” of the 1930s. London is sunk in an impenetrable fog. Traffic has come to a halt. Stranded in the train station and the hotel connected to it are a group of bright young things waiting to catch a train to the Continent, where their enormously rich friend Max is throwing a party. Green’s characters worry and wonder and wander in and out of each other’s company (and arms and beds), in pursuit of and pursued by their own secrets and desires.
- 2009
Andrea Alciati And His Books Of Emblems
A Biographical And Bibliographical (1872)
- 368 pages
- 13 hours of reading
Focusing on the life and contributions of Andrea Alciati, this work offers an in-depth exploration of his role as a jurist and humanist during the Renaissance. Henry Green meticulously details Alciati's education, legal career, and significant influence on the emblem genre, highlighting his popular emblem books. The study also contextualizes Alciati's work within the cultural movements of humanism and the Reformation. With bibliographical insights and engaging prose, it serves as a vital resource for scholars and enthusiasts of Renaissance literature and art.
- 2008
TAYLORThese three brilliant novels span Henry Green's career as a novelist and display his unique talents as a writer. In Blindness, Green's first novel, a young man is blinded in a senseless accident but thereafter discovers new imaginative powers.
- 2000
Loving
- 206 pages
- 8 hours of reading
Describes life above and below stairs in an Irish country house during the Second World War. In the absence of their employers, the Tennants, the servants enact their own battles and conflict amid rumours about the war in Europe.
- 1998
Back
- 160 pages
- 6 hours of reading
Back is, according to Jeremy Treglown in his introduction, "Henry Green's most extended attempt to plumb the world of the hunted - and haunted". First published in 1946, it has indeed remained one of Green's most haunting, elegiac novels and one of the most enduring to have focused on the individual human tragedy of the war.
- 1997
Leben
- 350 pages
- 13 hours of reading

