Greene met Walston, fell in love, and then sustained a long and passionate affair which was conducted with the full knowledge of all members of both families. Harry Walston himself came to be utterly and helplessly complicit in the relationship. Greene dedicated The End of the Affair to his paramour. In the book, a writer is having an affair with a neighbor’s wife. He and the neighbor have a strange friendship, as did Greene and Catherine’s husband. When a German bomb hits the building where the lovers are meeting, the woman spontaneously prays to God that she will change her life if only her lover is not dead. Amazingly, he is not. But this sets off a titanic tug-of-war in several characters’ souls about the relative claims of human and divine love.
The End of the Affair was a scandalous success, so much so that some Catholic wags complained that it gave the impression that Christ had said: "If you love me, break my commandments." Greene and Walston were certainly active in doing that. He began rationalizing the affair, going so far as to get confirmation from some priests that it was all right to go to confession again, even knowing that he would immediately return to the illicit liaison. Greene’s earlier sense of the acute tension between earthly and heavenly impulses gradually slid into a more lax form of Catholicism better suited to his own personal lifestyle.
http://amsaw.org/amsaw-ithappenedinhistory-100203-greene.html
Ausserdem ist in Andas Forum zusätzlich ein Video aufgetaucht, wo er über ihn spricht
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... &q=fiennes
