“Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at night?”
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Graham Greene (1904-1991), autor polemico, contradictorio y confuso, consigue con un estilo aparentemente simple, relatos de accion en los que la intriga esta casi siempre presente. En El americano tranquilo se revela su declarado antiamericanismo, atacando claramente la politica intervencionista de los Estados Unidos en Indochina. El hechizo del ambiente da pie a una novela que refleja, ademas, un complejo entramado politico, aunque como dice el autor en la dedicatoria "este es un relato y no un fragmento de la historia."
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Graham Greene
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“Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at night?”
“Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour. Wouldn’t we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife wi...”