我们在哈瓦那的人
Our Man in Havana
Graham Greene · 初版 1958 年
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为什么值得读
- 笔调轻松有趣，没有格林严肃作品的幽闭感
- 辛辣讽刺冷战时期特定爱国者的傲慢无知
- 极具洞察力地揭露了情报人员的荒诞失职
Wormold的女儿到了开销巨大的年纪——于是他接受了一位神秘英国人提供的一笔额外收入差事。他所要做的只是调遣特工、提交报告并刺探情报。然而，他那些捏造的虚假报告却有着令人心惊的成真倾向。
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……我意识到，他穿过几十年的光阴看着我时，可能就像看到了当年的自己（建筑和制服都没怎么变）。如果你想找本轻松的读物，那我推荐《哈瓦那特派员》（Our Man in Havana）作为了解格林的入门书。它很有趣，也没有他那些严肃小说里浓重的幽闭压抑感。
…I realise that he may have been looking across the decades at me as he might have been himself (the architecture and uniform hadn't changed much). If you're looking for a light read then I recommend "Our Man in Havana" as a taster of Greene. It's amusing and less imbued with the claustrophobia of his more serious novels.
这就是格雷厄姆·格林那本神作《哈瓦那特派员》的核心主题。在业务能力的比拼上，我怀疑从那时到现在根本就没多大长进。
This is the main topic of Graham Greene's excellent Our Man in Havana. I doubt much has changed in the competency stakes between then and now.
确实。我以前没读过格雷厄姆·格林的任何作品。因为看到这篇帖子，我跑去买了《哈瓦那特派员》和《沉静的美国人》，还顺带塞了一本海明威的《老人与海》，因为是亚马逊推荐的，而且我有个哥们儿吹爆了它。这就是我喜欢……的地方
Exactly. I hadn't read any Graham Greene previously. I went and bought "Our Man in Havana" and "The Quiet American" because of this submission, and threw in a copy of Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea" because it was suggested by Amazon and a pal of mine raves about it. This is what I like…
几乎任何一本格雷厄姆·格林的书都可以：《权力与荣耀》、《沉静的美国人》、《恐惧之源》、《喜剧演员》、《我们在哈瓦那的人》等等。
Just about any Graham Greene book: The Power and the Glory. The Quiet American, The Ministry of Fear, The Comedians, Our Man in Havana etc.
……你是想表达相反的意思。但认为虚构作品能讲对，本身就是个糟糕的假设，光是对“特工”（agent）到底是什么的混淆就够了，更别提其他方方面面。除了格雷厄姆·格林的《哈瓦那特派员》和《沉静的美国人》，我猜他敏锐地戳中了某个特定类型的20世纪中叶爱国者那种彻头彻尾的无能和傲慢的无知。《乱交之鬼》（Harlot's Ghost）虽然有点玄乎，可能也……
…you meant the reverse. But still a poor assumption to think the fiction ever got it right, starting with the confusion over what an “agent” is but including everything else. Excepting Graham Greene’s “Our Man in Havana” and “The Quiet American,” which I suspect nailed the respective damnfool incompetence and arrogant ignorance of a certain type of mid-century patriot keenly. “Harlot’s Ghost,” though mystical, may also…
……总的来说，他的作品通常谈不上是轻松读物，尽管他确实会用些小幽默来调味。我觉得一种末日感和不安感纯粹是源于他的世界观，在他的小说里你永远逃不开这点。《哈瓦那特派员》倒是挺好玩的，不至于太沉重，所以可能是一个不错的入门之选。《沉静的美国人》也很棒，讲的是另一个帝国的终结（法国在越南的殖民地），以及那种锐利的……
…summary, they are not often light reading, though he does spice the stories with little jokes. A sense of doom and unease just comes with his world view I think and you can never escape that in his novels. Our man in Havana is quite fun without being too heavy, so that might be a good place to start. The Quiet American is also good and concerned with the end of another empire (the French colony in Vietnam), and the sharp…