This Graham Greene Centennial Edition includes a new introductory essay by Robert Stone.
His caricatures of American types are often as crude and trite as those of. But Fowler's motives for intervening are suspect, both to the police and himself, for Pyle has stolen Fowler's beautiful Vietnamese mistress.įirst published in 1956 and twice adapted to film, The Quiet American remains a terrifiying and prescient portrait of innocence at large. With an introduction by Zadie Smith into the intrigue and violence of indo-china comes Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a. In 1956, American critics failed to salute The Quiet American when it was published in the United States. As young Pyle's well-intentioned policies blunder into bloodshed, Fowler, a seasoned and cynical British reporter, finds it impossible to stand safely aside as an observer. Pyle is the brash young idealist sent out by Washington on a mysterious mission to Saigon, where the French Army struggles against the Vietminh guerrillas. "I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused," Graham Greene's narrator Fowler remarks of Alden Pyle, the eponymous "Quiet American" of what is perhaps the most controversial novel of his career. Graham Greene's classic exploration of love, innocence, and morality in Vietnam
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