The End Of The Affair

　　"This is a record of hate far more than of love," writes Maurice Bendrix in the opening passages of The End of the Affair. And it is a strange hate indeed that compels him to set down the retrospective account of his adulterous affair with Sarah Miles -- a hate bred of a passion that ultimately lost out to God. Now, a year after Sarah's death, Bendrix seeks to exorcise the persistence of that passion by retracing its course from obsessive love to lovehate. At the start he believes he hates Sarah and her husband, Henry. By the end of the book, Bendrix's hatred has shifted to the God he feels has broken his life but whose existence he has at last come to recognize. Originally published in 1951, The End of the Affair was acclaimed by William Faulkner as "for me one of the best, most true and moving novels of my time, in anybody's language." This Graham Greene Centennial Edition includes a new introductory essay by Michael Gorra.

　　【愛情的盡頭】描寫在二次大戰飛彈呼嘯而過的倫敦，一個小說家與一位國家官員的妻子卻耽溺於偷情與肉慾的歡愛中。這段不倫之戀在一次驚險的空襲之後突然終止……墜落的飛彈像 似憑空而降的天譴，面對埋身於瓦礫中的情夫，女主角跟她並不相信的天主交換條件──「只要你讓他活著……我願意永遠離開他……」。經歷了兩年沒有愛情的沙 漠般的生活，小說家與女主角重逢。在嫉妒心的驅使下，他聘請私家偵探調查女主角的行蹤……。福克納推崇本書是「我的時代裡最真實動人的一部小說」。