THE RESONANCE OF CONFLICT: GENRE AND POLITICS IN THE TRANSATLANTIC RECEPTION OF THE QUIET AMERICAN.

The article analyzes the resonance of conflict in the reception of the 1955 novel "The Quiet American" by Graham Greene in Great Britain, the U.S., France and Sweden. Topics discussed include the interpretation of Swedish newspapers that the political novel shifted from the religious novel genre of Greene, the consideration of the aspects of Catholicism in the novel as flaws by British reviewers, and classification of the novel as anti-American in the U.S.