#Classic The Quiet American

• Author: Graham Greene (1904 – 1991)
  
• Title:  The Quiet American (210 pg)
• Genre: novel
• Published: 1955
• Trivia: 2019 BBC News lists The Quiet American
• ….as on of the 100 most influential novels
• List of Challenges 2020
• Monthly plan

Conclusion:

1. This was an excellent book. (reading time: 4 hrs)
   
2. I needed to detach myself for one day
3. from the political turmoil on TV #Election2020 USA.
4. Novels are a means to escape reality…
5. yet they describe in ‘fiction’ what many don’t want to acknowledge.
6. I wanted discover Graham Greene’s view of U.S. foreign policy.
7. USA –>  ill-advised and ill-informed
8. …sounds still very relevant in 21st C!
9. Greene portrays the French colonialism and American involvement in the
10. Vietnam War ….as a love triangle: Fowler – Phoung – Pyle
11. Central issue: the politics of intervention in a foreign nation.
12. Strong point:   characters
13. …Britain (Fowler), America (Pyle), France (Vigot) Vietnam (Phoung)
14. Fowler:…..repeating “I’m…