Graham Greene

The Quiet American

Centenary Celebration 2004

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Produktbeschreibung

'The novel that I love the most is The Quiet American' Ian McEwan, Sunday Times bestselling author of Lessons

Into the intrigue and violence of 1950s Saigon comes CIA agent Alden Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious 'Third Force'.

As Pyle's naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, finds it hard to stand aside and watch. But even as Fowler intervenes he wonders why: for the greater good, or something altogether more complicated?

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ZADIE SMITH

__One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World__

Produktdetails

• Vintage Classics
• Verlag: Vintage, London
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 254918, 741727
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 126mm x 194mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 154g
• ISBN-13: 9780099478393
• ISBN-10: 0099478390
• Artikelnr.: 11642862

Autorenporträt

Graham Greene

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chronology
I. THE QUIET AMERICAN: THE TEXT
II.THE AUTHOR AND HIS WORK
Graham Greene, from Ways of Escape
Graham Greene, Indo-China: France's Crown of Thorns
Graham Greene, A Memory of Indo-China
Graham Greene, Return to Indo-China
III. ANALOGIES AND PERSPECTIVES
Robert F. Futrell, Origins of the American Commitment to Vietnam
Maj. Gen. Nguyen Duy Hinh and Brig. Gen. Tran Dinh Tho, A Society in
Transition
Report by the National Security Council on the Position of the United
States with Respect to Indochina, 27 February 1950
Ho Chi Minh, Press Conference, 25 July 1950
Doris M. Condit, Indochina: The Threat in Southeast Asia
Ho Chi Minh, The Imperialist Aggressors Can Never Enslave the Heroic
Vietnamese People
Edward Geary Lansdale, Letter to Joseph Mankiewicz
Renny Christopher, The Quiet American [Film commentary and plot summary]
Edward Geary Lansdale, Two Letters
Christopher Hawtree, Case of The Quiet American [Greene on the film
version]
Jonathan Nashel, Lansdale and Greene
Keith Honaker, from Victimized by the French and Chinese
Takeshi Kaiko, from Into a Black Sun
IV. LITERARY CRITICISM
A.J. Liebling, A Talkative Something-or-Other
Lisa Vargo, The Quiet American and "A Mr. Liebermann"
R.W.B. Lewis, The Fiction of Graham Greene: Between the Horror and the
Glory
Georg Gaston, The Quiet American: A Secular Prospect
A.A. DeVitis, Transition: The Quiet American
Philip Stratford, The Novelist and Commitment
Zakia Pathak, Saswati Sengupta, and Sharmila Purkayastha, from The
Prisonhouse of Orientalism
Brian Thomas, The Quiet American
Miriam Allott, The Moral Situation in The Quiet American
John Cassidy, America and Innocence: Henry James and Graham Greene
Judith Adamson, Vietnam
Topics for Discussion and Papers
Selected Bibliography

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