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A 5 page research paper that examines the wide range of critical opinion that is included in the 1996 Viking Critical Library edition of Graham Greene's The Quiet American, edited by John Clark Pratt. The writer summarizes the response of critics to this work, both negative and positive, and then argues that those critics who examine the work from an existential perspective offer the best reading of this novel. No additional sources cited.
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Opinion among the scholars represented, like the reception that the novel received after its original publication in 1955, is varied. Some reviewers, such as A.J. Liebling, point to the
errors that Greene made with language. Greene, an Englishman, made some glaring errors in idiomatic usage of language relative to his American protagonist. However, other critics, such
as Georg Gaston, feel that Greenes intentions with this novel were basically misunderstood. Within this wide range of critical opinion, ranging from enthusiastic to derogatory, those critics who offer an
existential interpretation of the work appear to be the ones who are closest to the mark in giving a proper reading of the novel. To see why this is
true requires, first of all, an examination of the critical opinion that points out the weaknesses in this work. Liebling, for example, is highly critical of this work. Not only
does he point out the errors that Greene made regarding language, but he also states that the characterization is wrong. He says that the protagonist, Pyle, is a thinly disguised
Englishman in his actions, not an American; and, Fowler, the licentious English narrator is actually more like Ernest Hemingway. However, Liebling appear to be much more concerned with relating the
circumstances under which he read the novel rather then addressing the characteristics of the writing itself. R.W.B. Lewiss analysis is also critical, but at least his writing addresses the
characteristics of the novel more directly. His main objection appears to be that Greene never fully the reader on "any serious level" (369). Lewis concludes that the best that can
be said for this novel is that "Greene is demonstrating in it, deliberately if all too slyly, the unimportance of the human act when the religious consciousness is absent to
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