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Lädt ... Dame, König, As, Spion (1974)von John le Carré
  
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 shoppingzweinull | Apr 6, 2008 | 
 10 of the Greatest Cold War Spy Novels “Like Fleming, Le Carré (real name: David John Moore Cornwall) worked for British intelligence. But where Fleming used his WW 2 experiences as a springboard for fantasy, Le Carre turned his Cold War service into grimly realistic novels. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1963) trumped Deighton as a response to James Bond’s glamourous world of espionage, and he continues to turn out fine work to this day. Tinker charts the search for a Soviet mole in the upper echelons of British intelligence, providing Le Carré’s signature character – the low-key professional George Smiley – with a late-in-the-game chance to reclaim his standing in the Circus (MI6), made bittersweet by betrayal. A fine BBC serialization in 1974 was followed by an equally well-received feature-film version in 2011.” Karla is finally lured across a Berlin bridge and into the West. But, again, what figure is cut by the evil mastermind when he appears? “He wore a grimy shirt and a black tie: he looked like a poor man going to the funeral of a friend.” Le Carré has never written a better sentence, one so impatient of ideology and so attentive to what he, following W. H. Auden, describes plainly as “the human situation.” The television series of “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” has lost none of its grip, and the new film will recruit new friends to the cause; but if we seek George Smiley and his people, with their full complement of terrors, illusions, and shames, we should follow the example of the ever-retiring Smiley, and go back to our books. That’s the truth The power of the novel is that le Carré transfigured espionage – its techniques, failures and deceptions – into a rich metaphor combining national decay, the disintegration of certainties with advancing age, the impossibility of knowing another human being's mind, the fragility of all trust and loyalty. "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" is fluently written; it is full of vivid character sketches of secret agents and bureaucrats from all levels of British society , and the dialogue catches their voices well. The social and physical details of English life and the day to day activities of the intelligence service at home and abroad are convincing. Unlike many writers Le Carré is at his best showing men hard at work; he is fascinated by the office politics of the agency since the war. AuszeichnungenPrestigeträchtige AuswahlenBemerkenswerte Listen
British agent George Smiley hunts for a mole in the Secret Service and begins his epic game of international chess with his Soviet counterpart, an agent named Karla. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Die Protagonisten sind allesamt gestandene Persönlichkeiten, geprägt durch Kriegserfahrungen und den anschließenden Wettstreit der Systeme, subtile Eitelkeiten bestimmen den mit britischer Distanz geführten Umgang.
Die Hauptperson, der reaktivierte Agent George Smiley, führt seine Ermittlungen bei der Suche nach dem "Maulwurf" im britischen Geheimdienst mit einer beispiellosen Trockenheit und Methodik, die den Leser von der ersten Seite an in seinen Bann schlägt.
"Action" in irgendeiner Form wird man in diesem Buch nicht finden.
Schwer zu sagen, was besonders hervorzuheben ist: die mit mathematischer Präzision geführte Dramaturgie, die brilliant herausgearbeiteten Charaktere oder die schnörkellose Erzählweise ohne Langatmigkeit und überflüssige Emotionen. (Amazon.de)