Word: carr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Small Town in Germany, Le Carr...
LESLIE F. CARR Boston...
Counterpunching. Le Carrè has picked up the destructive intramural rivalries of espionage in The Looking Glass War and moved them into the illusion-fed machinations of the diplomatic life. The search, ultimately, is not only for Leo Harting but for clues to the personal identity that Harting managed to retain while in the service of depersonalizing ideological powers. As it turns out, both Harting and Turner have been Counterpunching with a diplomatic shadow world; they are both, says Turner, "looking for something that isn't there." Le Carrè, playing off the man of ideals against...
...this awareness that reveals Le Carrè as the Sartre of diplomatic and espionage literature. His protagonists stumble through the subterranean maze of contemporary crises in search of a sudden illuminating truth, such as the one that strikes Turner as he unravels the cause of Harting's betrayal. Hatred was not Harting's motive; instead, it was a need to defy the aimlessness and indifference of diplomatic life. "He'd escaped from lethargy. That's the point, isn't it: the opposite of love isn't hate. It's lethargy. Nothingness...
...Carrè tells about that journey through nothingness with the same clean, tough style that he mastered in his earlier works-a lucid grasp on the physical and emotional landscapes that allows him the occasional power of poetic insight...