Dra. Cristina Sanz, Georgetown University

Entrevista a la Dra. Cristina Sanz, Georgetown University

Banchoff, T. i Casanova, J. (red.). (2016), The Jesuits and glo‑ balization: historical legacies and contemporary challenges. Georgetown University Press (Washington, D.C., ss. 299)

Recenzowana książka to owoc rocznych badań grupy znakomitych uczonych, skupionych przez redaktorów Thomasa Banchoffa i José Casanovę. Projekt był realizowany przez Berkley Center of Religion, Peace and World Affairs na Georgetown University w Waszyngtonie. Główne pytania postawione przed zespołem brzmiały: co doświadczenie globalizacji mówi nam o Towarzystwie Jezusowym (jezuitach)? A co doświadczenie jezuitów mówi nam o globalizacji? Jak zapisano w tytule, tekst podzielony jest na dwie zasadnicze części: dziedzictwo historyczne i wyzwania współczesne. Kwestie te nadają treść ogólnemu schematowi pojęciowemu publikacji, historycznie podzielonego na trzy wielkie „fale globalizacji”.

“You must kneel, compañero”: The Making of Graham Greene’s Monsignor Quixote

In the 1970 s and 1980s Graham Greene took up the habit of travelling around Spain to holiday in the company of his Spanish friend, the priest and professor Leopoldo Durán. The most outstanding fruit of these trips, almost always in summer, was the inspiration for Monsignor Quixote (1982), which Greene came to regard as his most accomplished novel (Cloetta 2004: 77). Centred around an idealistic, innocent, and somewhat foolish priest who establishes an intimate friendship with a communist ex-mayor, with whom he travels around Spain and talks about the divine and the human, the novel was initially conceived as a kind of friendly caricature of Father Durán, but it soon served as a vehicle to express various concerns that haunted the writer’s mind. The opening of the “Durán papers” collection at Georgetown University enables scholars to delve into unpublished material kept by Durán over the years, which may cast insights into the genesis of Monsignor Quixote from both textual and biographical perspectives. Taking as a major source Durán’s diaries, 16 notebooks recording his meetings and telephone conversations with Greene from 1976 to 1991, this paper aims to clarify some of the relevant background to the book’s inception, complementing the diaries with other accounts such as Greene’s letters to Durán and other friends, Durán’s letters to Greene, and testimonies by witnesses present at the events described.1