![]() ![]() ![]() “Suddenly it struck me that here in this extraordinary city, where every vice was permissible and every trade possible, lay the true background for my comedy,” Greene writes in his autobiography Ways of Escape. So there is a Graham Greene trail of sorts within the Cuban capital, which the author enjoyed for its seedy side. During his stays he often dined at the famous Floradita restaurant-bar (), a haunt of another well-known literary visitor to Havana: Ernest Hemingway. ![]() Within the book Greene uses many specific locations, mentioning the Tropicana Club (), the Seville-Biltmore Hotel (now simply Hotel Sevilla, ) and the Hotel Nacional (). The book’s protagonist is a slightly gormless vacuum cleaner salesman, Mr Wormwold, who turns to spying to help pay his bills, not anticipating how tangled his affairs would soon become as a result of his espionage. GRAHAM Greene visited Cuba several times during the 1950s and 1960s and his comic novel Our Man in Havana was published on October 6, 1958, not long before Fidel Castro’s guerrillas took Cuba’s capital on New Year’s Day 1959. ![]()
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