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The three best books of John le Carre for whom the individual always mattered more than the ideology

The three best books of John le Carre for whom the individual always mattered more than the ideology
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John le Carré and the art of betrayal – Prospect Magazine


John le Carré and the art of betrayal
The novelist was fascinated by the traitor’s bargains and self-deceptions
December 16, 2020
John le Carré: in his fictional world every gesture is shadowed with meaning Credit: Photo: Christian Charisius/dpa/PA Images
Towards the end of John le Carré’s
A Perfect Spy, a Czech spy called Axel alias Poppy chides the British double agent he is running. On entering Czechoslovakia, why did he use his real name? “They said I would be better being me,” replies Magnus Pym, “they call it natural cover.” Axel is angry or at least seems to be. In Le Carré’s world every gesture has a shadow meaning. “Have you no reality at all, Sir Magnus?” he demands, using his semi-affectionate nickname for the Englishman. By the end of this masterly interview, one of many in Le Carré’s fiction, Pym is so desperate not to disappoint Axel, so keen to gain the approval of a man he had in an earl ....

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John le Carré Missed Nothing


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The passing of John le Carré, who has died at the age of eighty-nine, leaves not so much a gap in the market as a hollow space in the world. It is unlikely to be filled. There will not be another writer of his ilk, largely because the ilk was him. On the page—and, by all accounts, in person, though he was an accomplished mimic and would have made a delightful actor—he sounded like himself and nobody else. It was only between hard covers, you might say, that he was happy for his cover to be blown: ....

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