![]() He takes neither side in the war and detests ideology. He is entranced by the country and to some extent by its people. The question is hard to answer, since the principal character in the book is an English reporter, Thomas Fowler, whose working life in the 1950s is much like mine was to be in the following two decades. Just for that reason I ask myself whether the TV critic had not been right, and I see Vietnam through Greene-tinted spectacles. ![]() 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. When I first made a TV film about Vietnam, in 1969, the director asked me to quote from Graham Greeneās novel The Quiet American I did, and later one of the TV critics wrote that I saw the country with a second-hand imagination. ![]()
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