John le Carré (Routledge Library Editions: Modern Fiction) - Softcover

Homberger, Eric

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367354837 ISBN 13: 9780367354831

Publisher: Routledge, 2021

Synopsis

Since the heyday of Ian Fleming’s fantasy superspy James Bond, the novels of John le Carré have held up to readers across the world a sombre, fascinating picture of decline, deception and ethical ambiguity. In this study, originally published in 1986, the first to include an interpretation of A Perfect Spy, Eric Homberger argues that within the tradition of the spy thriller of John Buchan and ‘Sapper’ a ‘space’ was created by Somerset Maugham, Eric Ambler and Graham Greene for serious writing. From The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1963) to The Little Drummer Girl (1983) and A Perfect Spy (1986), le Carré has used that space to make a searching investigation of the nature of post-Imperial Britain. In the process he has become the peer of Conrad and Greene in the recognition that the spy novel is a literary form capable of the highest artistic seriousness.

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Eric Homberger

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367354837
• ISBN 13: 9780367354831
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 114