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| Persona designada: | John Le Carré; John Le Carré |
|---|---|
| Tipo de material: | Biografía, Publicación gubernamental, Publicación gubernamental estatal o provincial |
| Tipo de documento: | Libro/Texto |
| Todos autores / colaboradores: |
John L Cobbs |
| ISBN: | 1570031681 9781570031687 |
| Número OCLC: | 36761571 |
| Descripción: | viii, 297 p. ; 19 cm. |
| Contenido: | Biography and career -- Overview -- Loomings : Call for the dead and A murder of quality -- The spy who came in from the cold -- The coldest war : the Looking-glass war and A small town in Germany -- Interlude : The naive and sentimental lover -- Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy -- Cold war in the wings : The honourable schoolboy -- Last illusions : Smiley's people -- The theatre of the real : The little drummer girl -- Whose name was writ in water : A perfect spy -- The cold war wanes : The Russia house and The secret pilgrim -- Better than Bond : The night manager -- All sorts and conditions of men : Our game -- The captains and kings depant : The tailor of Panama. |
| Título de la serie: | Understanding contemporary British literature. |
| Otros títulos: | John Le Carré |
| Responsabilidad: | John L. Cobbs. |
Resumen:
Understanding John le Carre provides an introduction to a writer who is arguably twentieth-century England's most successful serious novelist and unquestionably the foremost living figure in English literature of espionage and detection. John L. Cobbs examines le Carre's life and work to identify the roots of his commercial and critical achievements. Cobbs establishes that le Carre's writing transcends the genre of espionage fiction, to which it is so often relegated, and that le Carre, like most of the great English novelists, is preeminently a social commentator who writes novels of manners.
In a biographical sketch of the writer, Cobbs describes le Carre's relationship with his father, his often overlooked academic success, his choice of a pseudonym, and his reputation as one who once worked in British intelligence, perhaps as a spy. In a critical overview of his literary career, Cobbs examines le Carre's primary themes, including the importance of the Cold War, the pull of conflicting loyalties, the corruption of bureaucracy, the tension between the individual and the state, personal betrayal rationalized by misguided idealism, and the pathos of vulnerable humanity in the grip of amoral and impersonal political and social institutions.
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por ndemun Actualizado 2009-08-25