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Zusatztext "No serious writer of this century has more thoroughly invaded and shaped the public imagination than Graham Greene ." ?Time Informationen zum Autor Graham Greene Klappentext This edition of Graham Greene's prophetic novel about American involvement in the Vietnam War includes the complete text of the work, along with essays by Greene, extensive historical writings, and relevant literary criticism. Zusammenfassung This edition of Graham Greene's prophetic novel about American involvement in the Vietnam War includes the complete text of the work! along with essays by Greene! extensive historical writings! and relevant literary criticism. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
