Volume 38, Number 9 · May 16, 1991
Graham Greene and 'The Quiet American'
By Richard West
When I first made a TV film about Vietnam, in 1969, the director asked me to quote from Graham Greene's novel The Quiet American; I did, and later one of the TV critics wrote that I saw the country with a second-hand imagination. Certainly I had read the book when it first came out in 1955, and on reading it once more in Saigon in 1990, perhaps for the sixth or seventh time, I found I admired it more than ever. Just for that reason I ask myself whether the TV critic had not been right, and I see Vietnam through Greene-tinted spectacles.
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