V---2nd, Epilogue, spying in

Werner Presber wernerpresber at yahoo.de
Fri Mar 11 03:27:09 CST 2011


Super Spy!

A strange case of espionage. A mysterious saboteur. And a space age  
court martial. Ingredients for suspense

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Have a nice day :-)

Am 10.03.2011 um 16:31 schrieb Mark Kohut:

> There are still a lot of thing sto talk about in the epilogue if we  
> want
> but I am gonna focus on one thing here.
>
> Spying. This lifelong theme in TRP's work gets its first workout here.
> This reading, after AtD, I am now reminded of the Vienna section of  
> that work
> wherein spying as Bad Shit is also sourced.
>
> Spying: surreptitously learning and passing on to Authorities the  
> personal,
> private, naturally-lived life of others. Authority = the State.
>
> I am also reminded that TRP name-checks Le Carre in the intro to  
> 1984, right?
>
> Some say---I am one---that underneath all of TRP's oftentimes savage
> satirization
> of the age, of the West, of the History of the West he believes--  
> as a lost
> vision-- in regular folk
> living straightforward lives with neighbors and family in village- 
> sized
> communities
>




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