The battle over „The Quiet American” (part one)

13 Iunie 2017 · de Andrei Gorzo | în De dragul jocului, English, Istoria filmului | etichetat Alden Pyle, Anti-Americanism, British Malaya, Catholicism, Cold War, colonialism, Dostoevsky, Edward Lansdale, Edward Lansdale’s Cold War, Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam, Eugene Burdick and William Lederer, Fowler, Frederick Logevall, General Thé, George Orwell, Graham Greene, harboiled fiction, Hemingway, Henry James, Ho Chi Minh, Humphrey Bogart, Indochina, James Naremore, James Whale, Jonathan Nashel, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, journalism, Korean War, Life, Ngo Dinh Diem, No Way Back, Paris Match, Phuong, Pravda, Sunday Times, T. S. Eliot, The Fallen Idol, The Quiet American, The Ugly American, Third Force, Time, Trinh Minh Thé, ugly american, Vietminh, Vietnam War

This essay is based on notes for a seminar I conducted at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung (University of Arts and Design) in Karlsruhe, Germany, in July 2016, at the invitation of Professor Andrei Ujică. Graham Greene’s novel The Quiet American was published in late 1955 in the U.K. and in early 1956 in the […]

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The battle over „The Quiet American” (part one)