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Obituary: John le Carré, master storyteller whose books defined the Cold War era

Died: December 12, 2020
JOHN le Carré, the pen name of David Cornwell, who has died aged 89, had the kind of upbringing most writers dream of but few would want to experience. From an early age he learned to keep secrets which, when he turned to producing novels in which spying and deceit, lies and betrayal were ubiquitous, served him bountifully for the best part of six decades.
His mother left when he was young and he was brought up – if that’s the right phrase – by his father. Ronnie Cornwell was a character whom le Carré himself might hesitate to create, so bizarre and unpredictable was his behaviour. Like the best novelists, Cornwell père had enviable powers of invention, which he employed criminally to his own gain. A conman and a womaniser, who at one point stood for parliament as a Liberal candidate, he gathered round him a forelock-tugging gang of well-educated ne’er-do-wells – “ex-schoolmasters, ex-lawyers, ex-everything” – who were prepa ....

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The essential John le Carré

The essential John le Carré
John le Carre in London, Oct. 6, 2009. The novelist transformed moral ambiguity and the lives of Cold War spies into high art. David Azia/The New York Times.
by Joumana Khatib
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- John le Carré, who died over the weekend at age 89, left behind a remarkable literary legacy. He wrote 25 novels over nearly six decades, zeroing in on the machinations of the espionage community and distilling complex interior conflicts into eminently readable tales.
For millions of readers across the world, his allure lies in the authenticity and believability of his novels. Le Carré worked as a British agent until his literary success allowed him to quit his undercover work to write full-time. His spies are morally ambiguous, genteel, solitary a marked departure from the suave and high-octane figures like James Bond, who glamorized the practice of espionage. His books feature labyrinthine plots and high stakes; the greatest bet ....

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John le Carre and the places he wrote about - Outlook Traveller

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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
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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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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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From the NS Archive: The secrets of John le Carré

From the NS Archive: The secrets of John le Carré
5 February 1999: John le Carré: A literary barbarian? Or a writer to whom future generations will turn for insights into our times?
In 1999, Jason Cowley, now the editor of the New Statesman, wrote this profile of John le Carré. The espionage novelist, he said, was a figure of fascination in the literary world, not least because he polarised the debate between the “literary” and the “genre” novel. But, thought Cowley, his importance extended far beyond that; the secretive writer, who purposely withdrew from the metropolitan book world and the publicity duties that were part of being an author, was a sort of seer. His understanding of the Cold War and the ways it manifested the mentalities of the combatants was more than the stuff of fiction; it was a reflection of the great issue of the time. It also reflected Britain as it was, not as how it wanted to be: le Carré, Cowley said, possessed an “intricate un ....

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