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The late John le Carre explored a lot of cities in his books,
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We take a look at the places the spy who went into the cold wrote about and what it meant 07 Min Read
When you think of good travel writing, chances are that you think of the canonised masters, as is the case with everything. Robert Byron, Eric Newby, Bruce Chatwin, Peter Matthiessen and the relatively new Bill Bryson. As with genres in any art form, we tend to place the highest importance on those who touched upon its most universal aspects. Shouldn’t good art, on the contrary, be a function of the way it conveyed the felt experience of its artist?
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By Bradley Winterton / Contributing reporter
Great comic set-pieces in literature are usually carefully constructed and well-timed. So it is when Kenneth Widmerpool in Anthony Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time (a character clearly based on Shakespeare’s Malvolio in Twelfth Night) has a shaker of sugar emptied over his head, or when in Evelyn Waugh’s letters he misreads instructions and explodes 10 times the intended amount of dynamite, bringing down the roof of half a house, including that of a toilet on which someone is sitting (luckily without fatal results).