English novel the novel "Murphy" in 1938. This same year Graham Greene's (1904–91) first major novel "Brighton Rock" was published. Then in 1939 James Joyce's published "Finnegans Wake". In this work Joyce creates a special language to express the consciousness of a character who is dreaming. Graham Greene was an important novelist whose works span the 1930s to the 1980s. Greene was a convert to Catholicism and his novels explore the ambivalent moral and political issues of the modern world. Notable for an ability to combine serious literary acclaim with broad popularity, his novels include, "The Heart of the Matter" (1948), "A
Graham Greene that as a revival of the Quietist heresy. This aspect of his work also was criticised by the theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar, as giving sin a mystique. Greene responded that constructing a vision of pure faith and goodness in the novel was beyond his talents. Praise of Greene from an orthodox Catholic point of view by Edward Short is in "Crisis Magazine", and a mainstream Catholic critique is presented by Joseph Pearce. Catholicism's prominence decreased in his later writings. According to Ernest Mandel in his "Delightful Murder: a Social History of the Crime Story": "Greene started out as a