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Language English Originally published 1939 Publisher Longman OCLC 41953106 | 3.5/5 Goodreads Publication date 1939 Country United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) Genres Travel, Novel, Fiction, Speculative fiction Similar Graham Greene books, Fiction books, Catholic Church books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Lawless Roads (1939) is a travel account by Graham Greene, based on his 1938 trip to Mexico, to see the effects of the government's campaign of forced anti-Catholic secularisation and how the inhabitants had reacted to the brutal anticlerical purges of President Plutarco Elías Calles.
A Catholic and conservative man, Greene travels to Mexico to find the remnants of Catholicism. His journey takes him from the northern border towns, then to San Luis Potosí, where he managed to get an audience with Gral. Saturnino Cedillo. He later travelled to cosmopolitan capital, and then into the states of Puebla and Chiapas. His main interest was in Tabasco, home of the atheist activist and cacique of the state, Tomás Garrido Canabal.
The voyage produced two books, the factual The Lawless Roads (published as Another Mexico in the U.S.), and the novel The Power and the Glory.