Fwd: NP but John Le Carre
Mark Kohut
mark.kohut at gmail.com
Sun Jan 3 11:45:18 UTC 2021
Le Carré wanted to up his literary game, partly, he claimed, in response to
Ian Fleming’s James Bond fantasies of the 1950s and ’60s, which he dubbed
“cultural pornography.” “It was a very rum thing,” he observed, “being in
the secret world and watching the literary extension of it as a kind of
saccharine vision of a life we didn’t live. Anybody involved in it I think
would have been aware of the human cost, the incompetence, the constant
cockups, the tragicomedy of it all. . . . Espionage . . . needed some kind
of serious treatment, I thought.”
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