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Lädt ... Unser Mann in Havanna. Roman (Original 1958; 1995. Auflage)von Graham Greene, Dietlind Kaiser (Übersetzer)
Werk-InformationenUnser Mann in Havanna von Graham Greene (1958)
  
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 10 of the Greatest Cold War Spy Novels “Possibly the greatest writer of prose to devote so much of his time to the theme of espionage, Greene was himself briefly an intelligence agent. His WW 2 experiences in London, dealing with a disinformation-dealing agent in Portugal, provided the impetus for this satirical and prescient look at the spy game. Wormhold, a British vacuum salesman in Havana during the Batista regime, becomes a spy for the MI6 to better provide for his daughter (he’s a single parent). The reports Wormhold concocts involve imaginary agents, whose salaries he collects. But his lively reports begin to greatly interest London, who send in reinforcements, initiating a deadly black comedy of errors, making the hapless agent a Soviet target. In an instance of perfect casting, Alec Guinness portrayed Wormhold in the 1959 film version.” Toward the end, as we go into a business luncheon at which Wormold is due to die, things begin to warm, and it seems we will get what we came for. But when, for a climax, a dog wanders into the dining room, laps the whisky Wormold spilled, dies, and thus gives warning of poison, things simply fall apart. I never saw a dog drink hard liquor, and don't believe this one did. However, I do believe he could read, and had had a look at the script, to know what he should do. All in all, little as a Greene fan likes to say it, this book misses, and in a thoroughly heartbreaking way, for it misses needlessly where it might have rung the bell. For once, Greene's Roman Catholic hang-ups, which make novels such as The End of the Affair so desolate, are kept in check - even joked about. "Hail Mary, quite contrary", prays convent-educated Milly, aged four. Nine years later she sets fire to a small American boy called Thomas Earl Parkman Junior because he's a Protestant - "and if there was going to be a persecution, Catholics could always beat Protestants at that game." Gehört zu VerlagsreihenArion Press (88) Biblioteca Folha (20) — 11 mehr Ist enthalten inOur Man in Havana / The End of the Affair / It's a Battlefield / England Made Me / The Ministry of Fear / Brighton Rock von Graham Greene Bearbeitet/umgesetzt inInspiriertHat als Erläuterung für Schüler oder StudentenPrestigeträchtige AuswahlenBemerkenswerte Listen
Ein harmloser, für den britischen Geheimdienst angeworbener Engländer in Havanna gerät mit seinen erfundenen Geheimberichten in die blutige Wirklichkeit. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Graham Greenes Roman ist eine köstliche Groteske, die immer wieder zum Schmunzeln, aber auch zum Nachdenken, anregt. Zusätzlicher Pluspunkt des Romans ist die Darstellung Kubas in den 1950ern. Greene gelingt es, die Atmosphäre des Landes in den letzten Jahren der Batista-Diktatur greifbar zu machen. (