The Honorary Consul is a British thriller novel by Graham Greene, published in 1973. It was one of the author's favourite works.
The story is set in an unnamed town (though clearly Corrientes) in northern Argentina, near the border with Paraguay.
Eduardo Plarr is a young doctor of English descent. As a boy, he left Paraguay with his mother, escaping to Buenos Aires while his English father remained in Paraguay as a political rebel. They never hea...
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The Honorary Consul is a British thriller novel by Graham Greene, published in 1973. It was one of the author's favourite works.
The story is set in an unnamed town (though clearly Corrientes) in northern Argentina, near the border with Paraguay.
Eduardo Plarr is a young doctor of English descent. As a boy, he left Paraguay with his mother, escaping to Buenos Aires while his English father remained in Paraguay as a political rebel. They never hear from the father again.
When Plarr moves to the quiet, subtropical backwater town, he strikes up acquaintance with the only two English inhabitants, a bitter old English teacher, Humphries, and the Honorary Consul of the title, Charles Fortnum, a divorced, self-pitying alcoholic who misuses his position. Plarr's other main acquaintance is Julio Saavedra, a forgotten but self-important Argentine novel writer full of silent machismo.
Visiting the local brothel with Saavedra, Plarr is attracted to a girl, but she is taken by another man. A...
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