Depicting a world dominated by insoluble contradictions and ruled by paradox, the novel “The Honorary Consul” (1973) demonstrates the topicality of Greene’s work. This not only determines the plot acuity of the narrative, but also draws the characters into a debate about faith and unbelief, about the kindness or cruelty of God, about humanism and the problem of revolutionary violence. The novel “The Human Factor” (1978), a book about a double agent of the special services, reflected the concern the author's fate of the human principle in the modern world, faced with an indifferent and even hostile state machine. In the story “Doctor Fischer from Geneva, or Dinner with a Bomb” (1980), an arrogant rich man and misanthrope, conducting psychological experiments on his guests, finds out what the limits of greed and to what degree of humiliation people subject to the cult of profit can reach...