the quiet american is a book by which british writer

He was in Prague in 1948 when the Communists took over Czechoslovakia he witnessed the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya in 1953 he was nearly hit by mortar fire while covering the 1967 Arab-Israeli war for a magazine.Īnd he was in Vietnam long before the parade of prize-winning journalists arrived there in the 1960s. Greene witnessed a number of this century’s violent upheavals and conflicts. Fear and the sense of sex are linked in a secret conspiracy.” I can’t invent it.”īut he said his travels were also motivated by “the agreeable ingredient of fear,” and he once wrote: “Fear has an odd seduction. He once told an interviewer that his trips were essential to his craft: “I travel because I have to see the scene. But he later came up with a better way to relieve the ennui: He began to travel-constantly. Greene was so bored as a young man that he played Russian roulette with a loaded pistol. Greene, who eventually settled in the south of France, many years ago wrote of his wanderings: “We were a generation brought up on adventure stories who had missed the enormous disillusionment of the First War. Lawrence and Aldous Huxley-who launched their writing careers after leaving England, which they found dull and stifling in the years immediately after World War I. Greene was one of a distinguished group of British literary expatriates-including D.H. It has always seemed reprehensible to me that he was never awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.” James added: “Many people regard him as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, novelist of his generation, who achieved the double distinction of wide popularity and critical acclaim. “He was a great and magical writer, hard to fit into any pattern,” said John Le Carre, the spy novelist who described Greene as his “guiding star.” Sir Kingsley Amis, the British novelist, spoke for many when he said Wednesday: “He will be missed all over the world.

The quiet american is a book by which british writer