6/6/2023 0 Comments The quiet american authorWhen her representatives intervene in otherĬountries' affairs it causes only suffering. The thesis is quite simply that America is a crassly materialistic and "innocent" nation with no understanding of other peoples. To the political thesis which they dramatize and which is stated baldly and explicitly throughout the book.Īs the title suggests, America is the principal concern. Into it is mixed the rivalry of two white men for a Vietnamese girl. Political action and commitment, Greene tells a complex but compelling story of intrigue and counter-intrigue, bombing and murder. Easily, with long-practiced and even astonishing skill, speaking with the voice of a British reporter who is forced, despite himself, toward It is a political novel - or parable - about the war in Indochina, employing itsĬharacters less as individuals than as representatives of their nations or political factions. Raham Greene's new book is quite different from anything he has written before. MaIn Our Time No Man Is a Neutral By ROBERT GORHAM DAVIS
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