John Medare Biography

The childhood of Le Carre was overshadowed by the departure of the mother from the family, the bankruptcy of the father convicted of fraud. He studied at the Sherbern private school. He studied German, literature and philosophy at the Berne University, modern languages ​​with the calculation of a diplomatic career, at the University of Oxford -; For two years he taught German in the end.

He entered the service of a military ministry, a year later he moved to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was the second secretary of the British Embassy in Bonn, as an employee intelligence, the service worked in Berlin and Bern. In the success of the third novel, he resigned. Information about the service of Le Carre in intelligence is motley. He himself did not want to seem to be a “literary defector from the secret world” and reluctantly reported this side of his activity: “I was not a mother Hari,” he said in an interview, “for some time I participated in this work, like Somerset Moet, Graham Green and many other writers.” Experience in British intelligence, according to Le Carre, served him as a source of reflection on human fate, the psychology of the British, since "espionage is present everywhere and he best reflects modern society." Le Carre developed the genre of a spy novel in a polemic with a romantic-adventure tradition from J.

Buck to J. Following R. Kipling, he called the spying "Big Game", in which the "Soldiers" of the Secret Service was assigned the role of pawns. J. Conrad and gr. Green, for whom the spy intrigue was a way of creating an existential situation, exposing the motive for human behavior. The closed world of secret service in Le Carre's novels serves as a model of a real, supposedly “open” society.

The main character and “ideologist” in the works of Le Carre, counterintelligence George Smilei, appears in his first novel “Call Dead” “Call for the Dead”,; screen. In the novels written for two decades, his image almost does not change. This is the same calm and inconspicuous person of the middle -aged “short -looking short -in -law, similar to an official” that he meets his professional desire to be invisible, mixed with the crowd - “a rich man or poor, a priest or a commoner?

In his character, the rationalism of the defender of existing institutions is combined with the idealism of the wandering knight and the wisdom of the pilgrim. His proximity to the hero K. Doyla is also played: the analytical mindset, memorable features and habits, even the Bayuter constant address, 9. Unlike the never-doubt spy-Supermin, J. Fleming, Smilei is a reflective spy. Like the author himself, he knows and loves Germany, but he hated it when they burned books there - then he knew exactly who his enemy was.

After the war, he became a professional spy, a recruiter of agents, a “mole”. But, as stated in the “murder in a frenzy” “a murder of Quality”, “throughout his secret work, he has not managed to adapt the means to the goal.” This determines his relationship with his department, the “circus” version of Le Carre of the British Secret Service, English, Circus - this is the area on which he placed her building.

Belonging to him inspires a sense of security from real life, but also "teaches it to explain it in terms of conspiracy." People working there "horrify me, but I am one of them." According to the colleagues, "he either resigns or retires. Too conscientious. It is never known whether he works or not. ”But his eyes were seen by the final episode of the combination conceived by his superiors-the death of a spy, which went“ in the cold ”, on the last, as he was promised, the operational task on the other side of the Berlin wall.

He knew that, becoming a double agent, he could not count on someone’s help, but he did not know that he was intended for the role of the pawn in the great game of salvation of the chief of East German In fact, the English agent who failed the agent in Berlin, according to the recall of Grin, the best of the spy novels known to him, is a parallel between the agents of hostile camps, separated by the Berlin wall, "we are all the same, and the opposite ideologies are equally abstracts The pawns, who are not sorry to sacrifice, is one of the repeated by Le Carre, “I even agree to be a pawn, if only they would take me into the game” - these words from Alice to the Government of the Secret Operation is depicted with the comic in the tradition of P.

Woodhaus, enhancing, however, the tragedy of this Kafkian novel. A cardinal question for Le Carre is associated with the image of Smilei about who the spy is. The absence of a unequivocal answer is emphasized by the name of the novel - "A tin, tailor, soldier, spy" "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy"; The television series in the Russian translation is the novel “Spy, go out!

Its search for a double agent is the search for himself, unsuccessful attempts to answer the question“ Who am I? The confrontation of British and Soviet intelligence is personified in the confrontation of Smilei and his Soviet "visa" nicknamed Karl.Smilei regards his victory rather as a defeat: to achieve it, he acted with the same means as his opponent, - took advantage of his only manifestation of humanity, love for a sick daughter.

Their last “duel” was a meeting at the Berlin Wall: “They exchanged the only look, and, probably, each of them saw himself in another for a second.” The same similarity is emphasized in the image of the secret services of the two countries - the London Circus and the Moscow Center as bureaucratic systems that impose universal conspiracy. After 10 years, the epilogue for the history of Smilei was written by Le Carre's book “Secret Pilgrim” “The Secret Pilgrim”, reminiscent of Dr.

Watson's stories about Sherlock Holmes's long -standing affairs. This time, the old, who had already completed his path of Pilgrim Smilei, speaking to future scouts, indulges in the memories, like the narrator, his former colleague who mentally interrupts, complements and comments on his “but on the face of Smilei, I am convinced,“ I have no smiles ”,“ I see how George is not only caused by the attitude to Smilei, “ Now the legendary figure, “Parts of the nostalgia of others”, but also the changed atmosphere in the world.

You are telling the truth, you are lying. "In this multifaceted novel, the story of his own duality is investigated by the twin spy, who decided to quit the" game in Kim. " He writes the story of his failed life as a "twelve -volume answer to Proust" or the confession addressed to his son. The spy of Le Carre is doomed to loneliness. Only in the last novels does he allow him the opportunity for him to return to the "banality of everyday life." Carroll - there was nothing left of her except "terribly secret frowning." For old bison of English intelligence, espionage is “exhausting anxiety”, “imitating love”, “failed life”, but also a secret citadel that covers from life troubles.

In a young agent they recruited, they want to see the "Troubles of the Great English Helpers." The newly made agent chooses love and life, and the "idea or person" dilemma is solved in favor of man. He refuses rewards and achieves the right to return to private life and wait for the promised reunion with his beloved Russian woman. A modest earthly paradise, a secluded cottage in Cornwall, a trimmed lawn, the adventures of the Hero of the "Night Administrator" "The Night Manager" and his lover are ending on the rope.

Roman Le Carre “Panama Panama” “The Tailor of Panama”, not only from the dream of a “Gentlemen Spy”; There is no contrast between selfless ordinary participants in the secret war to those who are sitting in the Circus, dispose of them as “pawns” in their “big game”, which was characteristic of his works of the X. Now the recruiters themselves and recruited are their own game.

The hero of the novel, the owner of the fashion studio, where he hears more confessions than the priest, is far from as harmless as "our man in Havana" gr. Green, to whom the author refers. Recruited by the English spy, he felt like an actor-improviser. Realizing that he should say what they want to hear from him, invented a secret opposition, his friend appointed her as a leader and soon ceased to distinguish between facts and fiction.

The Englishman appears as a spy of a new formation. He is interested in personal benefit - distant, when the Panama Canal may come from the hammer, and the neighbor - the money that intelligence services are ready to throw into the bonfire if it is possible to light it. And the tailor succeeds. He reaches the suicide of his frightened friend as a murder and makes him a hero, which turns out to be a sufficient basis for bombing.

In other novels con. But the development of new territories did not give the writer the material for the formulation of the essential problems that were distinguished by his best spy novels.