Книга: Greene Graham «Quiet American»
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Into the intrigue and violence of Indo-China comes Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious'Third Force'. As his naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, finds it hard to stand aside and watch. But even as he intervenes he wonders why: for the sake of politics, or for love… Издательство: "Random House" (2017)
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Greene, Graham
▪ British author
in full Henry Graham Greene
born Oct. 2, 1904, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, Eng.
died April 3, 1991, Vevey, Switz.
English novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and journalist whose novels treat life's moral ambiguities in the context of contemporary political settings.
His father was the headmaster of Berkhamsted School, which Greene attended for some years. After running away from school, he was sent to London to a psychoanalyst in whose house he lived while under treatment. After studying at Balliol College, Oxford, Greene converted to Roman Catholicism in 1926, partly through the influence of his future wife, Vivien Dayrell-Browning, whom he married in 1927. He moved to London and worked for The Times as a copy editor from 1926 to 1930. His first published work was a book of verse, Babbling April (1925), and upon the modest success of his first novel, The Man Within (1929), he quit The Times and worked as a film critic and literary editor for The Spectator until 1940. He then traveled widely for much of the next three decades as a freelance journalist, searching out locations for his novels in the process.
Greene's first three novels are held to be of small account. He began to come into his own with a thriller, Stamboul Train (1932; also entitled Orient Express), which plays off various characters against each other as they ride a train from the English Channel to Istanbul. This was the first of a string of novels that he termed “entertainments,” works similar to thrillers in their spare, tough language and their suspenseful, swiftly moving plots, but possessing greater moral complexity and depth. Stamboul Train was also the first of Greene's many novels to be filmed (1934). It was followed by three more entertainments that were equally popular with the reading public: A Gun for Sale (1936; also entitled This Gun For Hire; filmed 1942), The Confidential Agent (1939; filmed 1945), and The Ministry of Fear (1943; filmed 1945). A fifth entertainment, The Third Man, which was published in novel form in 1949, was originally a screenplay for a classic film directed by Carol Reed.
One of Greene's finest novels, Brighton Rock (1938; filmed 1948), shares some elements with his entertainments—the protagonist is a hunted criminal roaming the underworld of an English sea resort—but explores the contrasting moral attitudes of its main characters with a new degree of intensity and emotional involvement. In this book, Greene contrasts a cheerful and warm-hearted humanist he obviously dislikes with a corrupt and violent teenage criminal whose tragic situation is intensified by a Roman Catholic upbringing. Greene's finest novel, The Power and the Glory (1940; filmed 1962), has a more directly Catholic theme: the desperate wanderings of a priest who is hunted down in rural Mexico at a time when the church is outlawed there. The weak and alcoholic priest tries to fulfill his priestly duties despite the constant threat of death at the hands of a revolutionary government.
Greene worked for the Foreign Office during World War II and was stationed for a while at Freetown, Sierra Leone, the scene of another of his best-known novels, The Heart of the Matter (1948; filmed 1953). This book traces the decline of a kind-hearted British colonial officer whose pity for his wife and mistress eventually leads him to commit suicide. The End of the Affair (1951; filmed 1999) is narrated by an agnostic in love with a woman who forsakes him because of a religious conviction that brings her near to sainthood.
Greene's next four novels were each set in a different Third World nation on the brink of political upheaval. The protagonist of A Burnt-Out Case (1961) is a Roman Catholic architect tired of adulation who meets a tragic end in the Belgian Congo shortly before that colony reaches independence. The Quiet American (1956; filmed 1957) chronicles the doings of a well-intentioned American government agent in Vietnam in the midst of the anti-French uprising there in the early 1950s. Our Man in Havana (1958; filmed 1959) is set in Cuba just before the communist revolution there, while The Comedians (1966; filmed 1967) is set in Haiti during the rule of François Duvalier. Greene's last four novels, The Honorary Consul (1973; filmed 1983), The Human Factor (1978; filmed 1979), Monsignor Quixote (1982), and The Tenth Man (1985), represent a decline from the level of his best fiction.
The world Greene's characters inhabit is a fallen one, and the tone of his works emphasizes the presence of evil as a palpable force. His novels display a consistent preoccupation with sin and moral failure acted out in seedy locales characterized by danger, violence, and physical decay. Greene's chief concern is the moral and spiritual struggles within individuals, but the larger political and social settings of his novels give such conflicts an enhanced resonance. His early novels depict a shabby Depression-stricken Europe sliding toward fascism and war, while many of his subsequent novels are set in remote locales undergoing wars, revolutions, or other political upheavals.
Despite the downbeat tone of much of his subject matter, Greene was in fact one of the most widely read British novelists of the 20th century. His books' unusual popularity is due partly to his production of thrillers featuring crime and intrigue but more importantly to his superb gifts as a storyteller, especially his masterful selection of detail and his use of realistic dialogue in a fast-paced narrative. Throughout his career, Greene was fascinated by film, and he often emulated cinematic techniques in his writing. No other British writer of this period was as aware as Greene of the power and influence of cinema.
Greene published several collections of short stories, among them Nineteen Stories (1947; revised as Twenty-One Stories, 1954). Among his plays are The Living Room (performed 1952) and The Potting Shed (1957). His Collected Essays appeared in 1969. A Sort of Life (1971) is a memoir to 1931, to which Ways of Escape (1980) is a sequel. A collection of his film criticism is available in Mornings in the Dark: The Graham Greene Film Reader (1993).
Additional Reading
Norman Sherry, The Life of Graham Greene, 3 vol. (1989–2004), is a thorough biography. A.A. DeVitis, Graham Greene, rev. ed. (1986), gives an overview of the author and his career. Cedric Watts, A Preface to Greene (1997), provides an excellent introduction.
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Источник: Greene, Graham
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