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☆ ‘The Secret Life of John Le Carré’ Review: Operations in the Field
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Dominic Green | Adam Sisman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

The author David Cornwell (whose pen name was John le Carré) shark-fishing near his home in Cornwall, England, August 1974. Photo: Ben Martin/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty ImagesWhen John le Carré contemplated writing an autobiography, he hired two detectives to investigate his life. Grab a Copy The Secret Life of John le Carre By Adam Sisman Harper 208 pages We may earn a commission when you buy products through the links on our site. Buy Book Amazon Barnes & Noble Books a Million Bookshop“The Secret Life of John le Carré” is the last word, an enlightening appendix to Mr. Sisman’s “John le Carré: The Biography” (2015). Though le Carré was “apparently open” in their interviews, Mr. Sisman “quickly learned not to rely on anything he said.” Le Carré, whose real name was David Cornwell, was “a performer,” a method novelist.

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☆ ‘The Pigeon Tunnel’ Review: Decoding John le Carré
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( John Anderson | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

David Cornwell, aka writer John le Carré Photo: Apple TV+If someone were going to tell you their life story, the ideal someone would be one of the world’s great storytellers—John le Carré, for instance, the celebrated spy novelist, literary archivist of the Cold War, spinner of tales of diaphanous morality. And what better conduit than Errol Morris , a filmmaker fascinated by people who delude themselves, or defend the indefensible, or become pawns in a system that eventually devours them—just like those in a Le Carré novel?

Persons: David Cornwell, John le Carré, — John le Carré, Errol Morris Organizations: Apple

NEW YORK (AP) — Errol Morris has just sat down with a reporter when his wife calls. The film, which opens Friday in select theaters and on Apple TV+, is based on le Carré's 2016 memoir of the same name. AP: The central, mysterious metaphor of le Carré's, “The Pigeon Tunnel" — a tunnel that funnels pigeons to shotgun-wielding men — looms throughout the film. Morris: I’ve often compared the writing to a Kafka parable, except John le Carré wrote it. I say to (le Carré) at some point: “History is chaos.” And he agrees, “History is chaos.”

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☆ Errol Morris Did Not Like This Q&A About His le Carré Film
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-08 | by ( David Marchese | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +12 min

Talk Errol Morris Did Not Like This Q&A About His le Carré FilmJohn le Carré’s spy novels traffic in the philosophical, emotional and practical ambiguities complicating concepts like truth, deceit and self-awareness. “The reason that I made ‘The Pigeon Tunnel,’” he said about le Carré, “is that he is interested in philosophical questions. I say to le Carré that for him the world divides into two groups: string-pullers and dupes. Mark Lipson, via Fourth Floor ProductionsWhat does John le Carré say about your position as an interviewer at the beginning of the film? I have a question about this idea that le Carré has: that the world divides into string-pullers and dupes.

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☆ ‘A Private Spy’ Review: John le Carré, Letter by Letter
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-10 | by ( Katherine A. Powers | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +2 min

‘A Private Spy,” a 630-page collection of the letters of John le Carré—David Cornwell in real life—is not as revealing of this secretive, canny man as Adam Sisman’s 2015 biography or as engaging as le Carré’s own episodic memoir, “The Pigeon Tunnel,” published a year later, partly in response to that “intrusive” biography. But what makes the letters so fascinating is their real-time immediacy, most palpable in the earlier years. Here is a man, not yet renowned as John le Carré, trying to find a way in the world, from student in England and Germany, to impoverished married man and father, would-be commercial artist, schoolmaster, diplomat (spy) and—before “The Spy Who Came in From the Cold”—middling novelist. Extensive though it is, it is only a selection of le Carré’s correspondence. They include, according to Tim Cornwell, a “‘tortured’ sixteen-page letter” le Carré wrote to Timothy Garton Ash on “the morality of spying,” and a couple of dispatches le Carré claimed he sent as a boy to Stalin, one advising the Supreme Commander of his support for opening a second front, the other complaining about his school.

„Cu mare tristeţe trebuie să anunţ că David Cornwell, cunoscut în lume sub numele John le Carré, a decedat după o scurtă boală (fără legătură cu Covid-19) în Cornwall sâmbătă seară, 12 decembrie 2020. Scriitorul britanic a fost considerat un maestru al romanului de spionaj, multe dintre lucrările sale fiind ecranizate pentru marile ecrane. În cariera sa, John le Carré a scris 25 de romane și un volum de memorii publicat în 2016, The Pigeon Tunnel. A fost însă nevoit să se retragă din MI6, după ce agentul dublu Kim Philby l-a deconspirat în fața KGB-ului, alături de mulți alți compatrioți. Ultimul său roman a fost Agent Running in the Field, publicat în 2019.

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