Graham Greene

The Quiet American (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

A "masterful . . . brilliantly constructed novel" of love and chaos in 1950s Vietnam (Zadie Smith, The Guardian). It's 1955 and British journalist Thomas Fowler has been in Vietnam for two years covering the insurgency against French colonial rule. But it's not just a political tangle that's kept him tethered to the country. There's also his lover, Phuong, a young Vietnamese woman who clings to Fowler for protection. Then comes Alden Pyle, an idealistic American working in service of the CIA. Devotedly, disastrously patriotic, he believes neither communism nor colonialism is what's best for Southeast Asia, but rather a "Third Force": American democracy by any means necessary. His ideas of conquest include Phuong, to whom he promises a sweet life in the states. But as Pyle's blind moral conviction wreaks havoc upon innocent lives, it's ultimately his romantic compulsions that will play a role in his own undoing. Although criticized upon publication as anti-American, Graham Greene's "complex but compelling story of intrigue and counter-intrigue" would, in a few short years, prove prescient in its own condemnation of American interventionism (The New York Times).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Road Media
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781504052542
• Artikelnr.: 51527102

Autorenporträt

Graham Greene (1904-1991) is recognized as one of the most important writers of the twentieth century, achieving both literary acclaim and popular success. His best known works include Brighton Rock, The Heart of the Matter, The Quiet American, and The Power and the Glory. After leaving Oxford, Greene first pursued a career in journalism before dedicating himself full-time to writing with his first big success, Stamboul Train. He became involved in screenwriting and wrote adaptations for the cinema as well as original screenplays, the most successful being The Third Man. Religious, moral, and political themes are at the root of much of his work, and throughout his life he traveled to some of the wildest and most volatile parts of the world, which provided settings for his fiction. Greene was a member of the Order of Merit and a Companion of Honour.

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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