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4 de nov. de 2022 · Nov. 4, 2022. John le Carré, who died over the weekend at age 89, left behind a remarkable literary legacy. He wrote 25 novels over nearly six decades, zeroing in on the machinations of the...
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John le Carré has 174 books on Goodreads with 1289248 ratings. John le Carré’s most popular book is The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (George Smiley, #3).
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David J.M. Cornwell (also know as John le Carre, his artistic pseudonym) was born on the 19th of October 1931, in Poole, a coastal town in the county of Dorset, in England. John le Carre has revolutionized the spy fiction genre, creating his own niche and his own legion of followers and imitators. None of those who tried to replicate his style, how...
Le Carre began to work for the secret service of Her Majesty during the Second World War, as an interpreter of classified documents. In 1947 he enrolled at the University of Bern, in Switzerland, and he then moved on with his studies in England, at the Lincoln College in Oxford, where he earned a degree in German literature in 1956. He became a pro...
From the beginning, Le Carre’s stories and characters are very far from James Bond’s triumphalism. The protagonists of his books, in fact, are extremely realistic, like the settings in which the plots unfold. Le Carre describes people who are often obsessed, ambitious and selfish, characters who follow personal interests and passions more than idea...
The first book written by Le Carre, which is also his first major success, is titled Call for the Dead, and was published when John was still a MI6 agent. The protagonist, George Smiley, doesn’t have much in common with the other hero of the genre, James Bond. Smiley has a troubled story behind him, a failed marriage and some problems with long-ter...
The books written by John Le Carre are absolutely perfect for film adaptations. The first script based on one of his novel was written in 1965 by Martin Ritt. The protagonist of the movie was the actor Alec Learnas. The novel on which the movie and the script were based is The Spy who Came in from the Cold, published in 1963. The world had to wait ...
Most of le Carré's books are spy stories set during the Cold War (1945–91) and portray British Intelligence agents as unheroic political functionaries, aware of the moral ambiguity of their work and engaged more in psychological than physical drama.
- 12 December 2020 (aged 89), Truro, England, UK
13 de jul. de 2023 · His clever, melancholic mind produced some of the most enduring heroes in spy fiction. Here are his best books.
- Sam Adler-Bell
David John Moore Cornwell, más conocido por su seudónimo John le Carré (Poole, 19 de octubre de 1931-Cornualles, 12 de diciembre de 2020), [1] fue un novelista británico especializado en relatos de suspense y espionaje ambientados en la época de la Guerra Fría.
14 de dic. de 2020 · Estas son diez de las mejores obras de John le Carré: El espía que surgió del frío (1963) Portada de 'El espía que surgió del frío'. Planeta. Fue su tercera novela —antes había publicado...
