From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War, to a career as a writer that took him from war-torn Cambodia to Beirut on the cusp of the 1982 Israeli invasion, to Russia before and after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, John le Carré has always written from the heart of modern times. In this, his first memoir, le Carré is as funny as he is incisive - readin...
From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War, to a career as a writer that took him from war-torn Cambodia to Beirut on the cusp of the 1982 Israeli invasion, to Russia before and after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, John le Carré has always written from the heart of modern times. In this, his first memoir, le Carré is as funny as he is incisive - reading into the events he witnesses the same moral ambiguity with which he imbues his novels. Whether he's writing about the parrot at a Beirut hotel that could perfectly mimic machine gun fire, or visiting Rwanda's museums of the unburied dead in the aftermath of the genocide, or celebrating New Year's Eve with Yasser Arafat, or interviewing a German terrorist in her desert prison in the Negev, or watching Alec Guinness preparing for his role as George Smiley, or describing the female aid worker who inspired the main character in his The Constant Gardener, le Carré endows each happening with vividness and humour, now making us laugh out loud, now inviting us to think anew about events and people we believed we understood. Best of all, le Carré gives us a glimpse of a writer's journey over more than six decades, and his own hunt for the human spark that has given so much life and heart to his fictional characters.
R4 read by the author. MI5 trained prose writer & a constant traveller. // When the secret world came to claim me, it felt like a coming-home; natural born coward.// George Blake, Kim Philby; Martin R...R4 read by the author. MI5 trained prose writer & a constant traveller. // When the secret world came to claim me, it felt like a coming-home; natural born coward.// George Blake, Kim Philby; Martin Ritt; Karel Reisz, Lindsay Anderson.(展开)
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1 有用 Mephistopheles 2016-10-05 03:46:34
勒长者与各路人物谈笑风生……（不过对我来说就是，一部分有意思就仔细看，一部分不想看就迅速掠过）最后一段的保险箱梗笑死我了
1 有用 树叶的叶 2016-10-04 16:09:28
R4 read by the author. MI5 trained prose writer & a constant traveller. // When the secret world came to claim me, it felt like a coming-home; natural born coward.// George Blake, Kim Philby; Martin R... R4 read by the author. MI5 trained prose writer & a constant traveller. // When the secret world came to claim me, it felt like a coming-home; natural born coward.// George Blake, Kim Philby; Martin Ritt; Karel Reisz, Lindsay Anderson. (展开)
0 有用 BOOKMAN 2016-11-08 19:30:23
finally
1 有用 神秘数字53 2021-01-16 14:40:46
一开篇就是大神风范，preface揭示了勒卡雷间谍小说的本质：对宿命深深的无力感。DNF，有机会还要重新读。
0 有用 从声 2021-06-17 18:36:41
他的一生其实比他的小说精彩
0 有用 从声 2021-06-17 18:36:41
他的一生其实比他的小说精彩
1 有用 神秘数字53 2021-01-16 14:40:46
一开篇就是大神风范，preface揭示了勒卡雷间谍小说的本质：对宿命深深的无力感。DNF，有机会还要重新读。
0 有用 Ruby 2017-03-03 20:31:35
这是他最新的一本书，也是第一本自传，或者说算是自传吧。这里面讲了所有他写作的故事，和他以前书籍中的真实人物。一个好作家不只是想象力丰富而已，还要做很多社会调查。他写了一辈子间谍的故事，几乎所有的故事都是建立在真实的背景上的。几乎所有的间谍主角都有原型。故事和谍战虽然是虚构，但是由于背景真实以及原型间谍的影响，他第一本破冰的书被当年的俄罗斯给封杀了。其影响力可见一斑。 看过他书的人儿读过这本书会有... 这是他最新的一本书，也是第一本自传，或者说算是自传吧。这里面讲了所有他写作的故事，和他以前书籍中的真实人物。一个好作家不只是想象力丰富而已，还要做很多社会调查。他写了一辈子间谍的故事，几乎所有的故事都是建立在真实的背景上的。几乎所有的间谍主角都有原型。故事和谍战虽然是虚构，但是由于背景真实以及原型间谍的影响，他第一本破冰的书被当年的俄罗斯给封杀了。其影响力可见一斑。 看过他书的人儿读过这本书会有很多恍然大悟的快乐，因为会把所有的故事与真实人物连接起来；没有看他的书的人儿读过这本书会有想读所有他写过的书的冲动。我是后者，呵。 (展开)
0 有用 BOOKMAN 2016-11-08 19:30:23
finally
1 有用 Mephistopheles 2016-10-05 03:46:34
勒长者与各路人物谈笑风生……（不过对我来说就是，一部分有意思就仔细看，一部分不想看就迅速掠过）最后一段的保险箱梗笑死我了