Stories about Literature in Ho Chi Minh City
Colonel CassandraKenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,644] Review of the biography of Edward Lansdale, model of The Ugly American and The Quiet American.
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Ho Chi Minh City |
Vietnam
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The Lover: A Film and Book ReviewCeleste Heiter - cheiter [29,099] "Very early in my life it was too late. At eighteen it was already too late. I aged. This aging was brutal. It spread over my features, one by one. I saw this aging of my face with the same sort of...
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Ho Chi Minh City |
Vietnam
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Our Cassandra in SaigonKenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,644] "I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused." -from The Quiet American. Review of Graham Greene's "The Quiet American".
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Ho Chi Minh City |
Vietnam
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A Lolita of the Far EastKenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,644] The setting is colonial Vietnam. A man of thirty-two falls in love with a girl of fifteen-and-a-half, who lies and says that she's seventeen. He's rich; she's poor. Her father is dead and her elder...
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Ho Chi Minh City |
Vietnam
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In The NamKenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,644] Review of Nam, a collection of first-hand accounts of the Vietnam War by some of its American veterans.
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Ho Chi Minh City |
Vietnam
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We Were Soldiers Once...And Why?Kenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,644] "Those who do not do battle for their country do not know with what ease they accept their citizenship in America." This clumsy sentence is attributed to Dean Brelis, author of The Face of South...
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Ho Chi Minh City |
Vietnam
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Lessons Unlearned: Gabriel Kolko's Anatomy of a WarKenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,644] Review of Kolko, Gabriel. Anatomy of a war : Vietnam, the United States, and the Modern Historical Experience [Phoenix Press, London, 1994]. "We had to destroy the town to save it." - American colonel...
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Ho Chi Minh City |
Vietnam
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The Quiet VietnameseKenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,644] "The weak overcomes the unbending, And the submissive overcomes the strong, This everyone in the world knows yet no one can put it into practice." -- Tao Te Ching One can be forgiven for looking...
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Ho Chi Minh City |
Vietnam
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Apocalypse Now and AgainKenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,644] Review of Frances Fitzgerald's "Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam", Back Bay Books, 2002.
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Ho Chi Minh City |
Vietnam
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Love in the Time of ColoniesKenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,644] Review of Marguerite Duras' Indochina novel The Lover.
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Ho Chi Minh City |
Indochina |
Cholon |
Vietnam
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