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The great era for spy novels ends with the death of John le Carre

A sit-down with a spy novelist: what John le Carre learnt from the secret service We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss A sit-down with a spy novelist: what John le Carre learnt from the secret service Normal text size Advertisement When you enter the secret world and you are engaged in the intensive examination of your enemy, your opponent, you in a sense begin to know him and think about him not just as an opponent but some kind of secret sharer. John le Carre wrote 26 novels during his career, the last coming out in 2019.

John le Carré never won the Booker – but then he preferred it out in the cold | John le Carré

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 Mon 14 Dec 2020 11.47 EST Last modified on Mon 14 Dec 2020 11.49 EST John le Carré never won the Booker prize. His genre – a mix of espionage and detective thriller – wasn’t 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€

The Secret Life: John le Carré

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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