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He Makes Us Love George Smiley: Robert Harris On The Legacy Of John Le Carré
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A sit-down with a spy novelist: what John le Carre learnt from the secret service
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A sit-down with a spy novelist: what John le Carre learnt from the secret service
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John le Carre wrote 26 novels during his career, the last coming out in 2019.
The late novelist, who eschewed literary prizes, was a shadowy giant of post-war British fiction
Gary Oldman as George Smiley in the 2011 adaptation of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Photograph: Jack English/Allstar/Focus Features
Gary Oldman as George Smiley in the 2011 adaptation of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Photograph: Jack English/Allstar/Focus Features
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John le Carré never won the Booker prize. His genre â a mix of espionage and detective thriller â wasnât always in literary fashion even as it was hugely popular, selling some 60m copies. Le Carré refused to let his work be entered into literary prizes, though he did in his early career and in recent years had been recognised with honours such as the prestigious Olof Palme award. The complexity and deftness of his narratives left the illusion, for some, that they somehow skimmed the surface of life. That plots overwhelmed his charactersâ
Interview: Robert Harris Remembers John Le Carré : NPR
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le Carré remains an enigma even to himself . In
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974) George Smiley is recalled from retirement to investigate whether there is a double agent, or “mole”, operating at the highest level of the intelligence service, which John le Carré calls the Circus. Melancholy and introspective - le Carré writes of the aged spymaster’s spiritual exhaustion - Smiley is drawn back reluctantly into a crepuscular world of secrets and subterfuge, where even long-time friends and associates cannot be trusted. Smiley, le Carré writes, had that art, from miles and miles of secret life, of listening at the front of his mind; of letting the primary incidents unroll directly before him while another, quite separate faculty wrestled with their historical connection .
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