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John le Carré’s Post–Cold War Fiction
Author: Robert Lance Snyder
This is an analysis of the first 10 novels of one of the most significant ethicists in contemporary fiction. This book challenges distinctions between popular and serious literature by recognizing le Carre as one of the most significant ethicists in contemporary fiction, contributing to an overdue reassessment of his literary stature. Le Carres ten postCold War novels constitute a distinctive subset of his espionage fiction in their response to the momentous changes in geopolitics that began in the 1990s. Through a close reading of these novels, Snyder traces howamid the War on Terror and transnationalismle Carre weighes what is at stake in this conflict of deeply invested ideologies.
This is an analysis of the first 10 novels of one of the most significant ethicists in contemporary fiction. This book challenges distinctions between popular and serious literature by recognizing le Carre as one of the most significant ethicists in contemporary fiction, contributing to an overdue reassessment of his literary stature. Le Carres ten postCold War novels constitute a distinctive subset of his espionage fiction in their response to the momentous changes in geopolitics that began in the 1990s. Through a close reading of these novels, Snyder traces howamid the War on Terror and transnationalismle Carre weighes what is at stake in this conflict of deeply invested ideologies.
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