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> John le Carré had already published at least 4 popular spy novels By the time I read my tenth or twelfth le Carré, I was ready to contest the point that they
by B1FF_PSUVM 5y ago
> John le Carré had already published at least 4 popular spy novels
By the time I read my tenth or twelfth le Carré, I was ready to contest the point that they were different novels. It all seemed to boil down to "It's a mistake, we don't know what we are doing, woe is us" in different locales.
- woodruffw 5y agoThat's been my experience of them as well :-) They're certainly a different subgenre, but I think the larger point stands: it's possible to be a British author of spy novels in the 20th century without sublimating your fear of British decline through one-dimensional, reactionary characterization.
- CamperBob2 5y agoYeah, le Carré is to Fleming as David Attenborough is to J.R.R. Tolkien. They are not in the same business.