Abstract
From 1976 the English novelist Graham Greene began to travel periodically to Spain at the invitation of his friend, Leopoldo Duran Justo, a Galician priest and lecturer at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. A tradition of annual holidays in the Iberian Peninsula thus began, reaching a total of fifteen visits until the death of the author in 1991. From this first trip Greene had the opportunity to tour numerous Galician sites, many of which would become compulsory stops, but the one of 1987 is of special interest to understand his personal relationship with Galicia. The itinerary this summer was marked by the invitation of the Galician entrepreneur Vicente Cebrian, Count of Creixell, to visit the headquarters of the Murrieta wineries and to stay three days in the Pazo de Barrantes, in Pontevedra. The Count's hospitality was accompanied by a proposal to the writer: to agree to lend his name to an initiative he was contemplating, the Graham Greene Foundation. The present article reconstructs the fourteenth and penultimate trip of Greene to Spain from biographical notes taken by Duran that were never made public, and from an exceptional diary outlined by Greene himself. Thus, it offers unpublished information to recreate the main anecdotes that took place, paying special attention to the days that the travellers spent at the Pazo de Barrantes as guests of the Counts of Creixell.
Highlights
From 1976 the English novelist Graham Greene began to travel periodically to Spain at the invitation of his friend, Leopoldo Durán Justo, a Galician priest and lecturer at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid
The present article reconstructs the fourteenth and penultimate trip of Greene to Spain from biographical notes taken by Durán that were never made public, and from an exceptional diary outlined by Greene himself
It offers unpublished information to recreate the main anecdotes that took place, paying special attention to the days that the travellers spent at the Pazo de Barrantes as guests of the Counts of Creixell
Summary
En el planteamiento de estas vacaciones resuenan los ecos de una previa invitación a visitar las bodegas Marqués de Murrieta acaecida en 1983. Poco después de la visita de 1983 las bodegas habían pasado a manos de Cebrián, y este empezó a aflorar en el diario de Durán desde 19857 como una presencia benéfica y prometedora. A lo largo de las conversaciones previas, Greene parece consciente de que Cebrián se ha convertido en benefactor de Durán, y este motivo podría haber sido capital para asegurar su aceptación de la segunda visita a Ygay (Diarios XII: 48, 181-183, 189). A pesar de que los diarios de junio ya muestran confirmación del plan, de nuevo parece haber una sombra de duda sobre la visita a Ygay, pues Durán se ve obligado a insistir en la necesidad de acudir, y recoge cómo Greene vuelve a acceder. Una vez ultimados los detalles, si bien con escasa antelación, Greene se dirige al que Durán declarará ser “el peor viaje de nuestra vida” (Diarios XIII: 62, 77)
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