THE THIRD MAN. THE FALLEN IDOL

The Third Man is Greene's brilliant recreation of post-war Vienna, a city of desolate poverty occupied by four powers. Rollo Martins , a second-rate novelist, arrives penniless in Vienna to visit his old friend and hero Harry Lime. Harry is dead, but the circumstan ces surrounding his death are highly suspicious, and his reputation, at the very least, dubious. Graham Greene said of The Third Man that he 'wanted to entertain [people], to frighten them a little, to make them laugh' and the result is both a compelling narrative and a h...[Leer más]