The Quiet American

The novel "Quiet American" (1955), at first glance, is dedicated to eternal conflict: against the backdrop of tragic events in Saigon, relations are developing inside a love triangle - an English journalist, his Vietnamese girlfriend and a young American. However, much more ambitious things are hidden behind a love conflict: the flour of the moral character of the protagonist, and thoughts about the insignificant price of a person who has fallen into a political meat grinder, and an acute idea of ​​the export of Western values, embodied in the image of a “quiet American "of Pyla. Outwardly, naive and good -natured, he is involved in a series of terrorist attacks, behind which are the US intelligence services