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While the French Army in Indo-China is grappling with the Vietminh, back in Saigon a young and high-minded American named Pyle begins to channel economic aid to a „Third Force.”
Caught between French colonialists and the Vietminh, Fowler, the narrator and seasoned foreign correspondent, observes: „I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.” As young Pyle's policies blunder on into bloodshed, the older man finds it impossible to stand aside as an observer. But Fowler's motives for intervening are suspect, both to the police and to himself: for Pyle has robbed him of his Vietnamese mistress.
Eredeti megjelenés éve: 1955
A következő kiadói sorozatban jelent meg: Vintage Classics Vintage
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Graham Greene: A csendes amerikai · Graham Greene: De stille Amerikaan · Graham Greene: Der stille AmerikanerMost olvassa 1
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I love Greene, and I know I read this book when I was 20 or so, and one cannot forget what such book is about, but I gained a lot by rereading. GG's prose is fabulous, his characters are so real, and I love the historic correctness. Those little facts… it was amazing to imagine that European/US reporters could fly this way and that because viet minhs had no weapon that could shoot that high, for example.
The jump between timelines was a bit confusing sometimes, but I understand why GG chose to tell this story like that. When I finished, I immediately started again, checking the little facts GG has hidden in the beginning pages. He really is the master of his art.
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Népszerű idézetek
‘Thought’s a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at night?’
‘You talk as if the whole country were peasant. What about the educated? Are they going to be happy?’
‘Oh no,’ I said, ‘we’ve brought them up in our ideas. We’ve taught them dangerous games, and that’s why we are waiting here, hoping we don’t get our throats cut.
PART TWO — Chapter 2
'What's the good? He'll always be innocent, you can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.'
PART THREE — Chapter 2
A two-hundred pound bomb does not discriminate. How many dead colonels justify a child's or a trishaw driver's death when you are building a national democratic front?
PART THREE — Chapter 2
Sometimes we have a kind of love for our enemies and sometimes we feel hate for our friends.
PART FOUR — Chapter 2
When we are young we are a jungle of complications. We simplify as we get older.
PART FOUR — Chapter 2
„Secrecy is seldom important to a man who confesses: even when it's to a priest. He has other motives.”
„To cleanse himself?”
„Not always. Sometimes he only wants to see himself clearly as he is. Sometimes he is just weary of deception.”
PART FOUR — Chapter 1
Suffering is not increased by numbers: one body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.
PART FOUR — Chapter 2
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