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[Misc] RIP John Le Carre
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Machiavelli
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Weststander
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Brilliant author, RIP JLC.
He was old !!!
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We’re not allowed to mourn the passing of any old people?
I hadn’t realised that.
AmexRuislip
Retired Spy 🕵️♂️
John le Carré passes away.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/entertainment-arts-55297558
RIP
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/entertainment-arts-55297558
RIP
OzMike
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Not a fan of his writing, though I know to some it is a major contribution, RIP.
Indeed, RIP. One of the best English authors of the 20th century IMHO.
Del Fenner
Because of Boxing Day
And the semi-autobigraphical A Perfect Spy is the best book of the 20th century by an English author IMHO.
RIP
AmexRuislip
Retired Spy 🕵️♂️
Apologies, I didn't see your thread, as the news came on my phone as breaking news
One of our finest writers. Just outstanding.
It seems he also did a lot to preserve the Cornish coastline and stop developers taking over. A lot of areas coastal areas could do with a champion like that, especially the South coast.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
He led a very interesting life.
Le Carré, who spent a relatively brief period with MI6, published his first novel in the same year that the Berlin Wall went up: 1961.
Yet long after the Cold War ended, decades later, he went on to diversify into writing about the arms trade, Big Pharma and the so-called War on Terror.
Now to drop the cat amongst the pigeons
Le Carré turned down literary honours and a knighthood, saying in a 2017 US interview that he was "so suspicious of the literary world that I don't want its accolades".
"And least of all do I want to be called Commander of the British Empire or any other thing of the British Empire," he added, saying it was "emetic" or vomit-inducing.
He told CBS News' 60 Minutes: "I don't want to posture as someone who's been honoured by the state and must therefore somehow conform with the state, and I don't want to wear the armour."
Le Carré described himself as "English to the core" but deplored what he saw as the aggressive nationalistic sentiment behind Brexit.
"My England would be the one that recognises its place in the EU. The jingoistic England that is trying to march us out of the EU, that is an England I don't want to know," he said.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertai...ZgA05oKawqbgsCJBjHvTksOHrAAmWKO917BCOcYDcR-MA
Bloody good man. He knew which side his bread was buttered. And from a man who’s seen it inside out.
nicko31
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RIP John..
All these kids who have forgotten Spike