Literary criticism and counterintelligence

[rich]

Sisman's new bio of Le Carre is odd in that  the most interesting character
in the book is Le Carre's globe-trotting con man, gambler, crook par
excellence father, Ronnie.

rich

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 1:33 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Along the same lines from the Slow Learner intro (apologies to
> paleo-Listers for oft-trodden ground). In discussion of the imperial /
> colonial / espionage contexts of "Under the Rose":
>
> "I had grown up reading a lot of spy fiction, novels of intrigue, notably
> those of John Buchan.ohn Buchan...  E. Phillips Oppenheim, Helen MacInnes,
> Geoffrey Household, and many others as well. The net effect was eventually
> to build up in my uncritical brain a peculiar shadowy vision of the history
> preceding the two world wars. Political decision-making and official
> documents did not figure in this nearly as much as lurking, spying, false
> identities, psychological games... Readers may also feel shorted because
> of how, more than anyone, the masterful John le Carré has upped the ante
> for the whole genre."
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 9:49 AM, Thomas Eckhardt <
> thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
>
>> Of course, Angleton served with the OSS in London during WW II. Dulles is
>> mentioned in GR, Angleton I believe is not.
>>
>> -
>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>
>
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