NP but John Le Carre

[Jemmy Bloocher]

This does make sense and have over the last 4 year or so read all of his
published work (my best friend, sadly now gone, RIP Ben, I love you, adored
his work). I never doubted his literary cojones. He writes in such an
understated way (that aside from the occasional now dated, social tropes)
that it is quite lovely.
I do feel now renewed urgency to not read any Ian Fleming. Life is too damn
short.

On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 12:45 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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