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The Pigeon Tunnel

Autor John Le Carré
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 mai 2017

Diferența fundamentală dintre The Pigeon Tunnel și alte lucrări biografice despre autor, precum studiul critic semnat de Eric Homberger, constă în vocea inconfundabilă a lui John Le Carré. Nu suntem în fața unei cronologii rigide, ci a unei serii de „povești adevărate” relatate cu farmecul unui maestru al conversației. Remarcăm cum autorul, cunoscut pentru discreția sa legată de anii petrecuți în serviciile secrete, alege să ne dezvăluie nu doar fapte, ci mecanismele prin care realitatea brută a spionajului s-a transformat în literatură de calibru.

Abordarea sa evocă profunzimea din Conversations with John Le Carre, dar perspectiva este mult mai intimă, fiind filtrată prin propria memorie, nu prin întrebările unui intervievator. Notăm cu interes episoadele în care John Le Carré ne poartă din hotelurile Beirutului, unde un papagal imita sunetul mitralierelor, până în închisorile din deșertul Negev. Această incursiune în „inima timpurilor moderne” oferă contextul vital pentru operele sale clasice. Dacă în Call for the Dead sau Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy am cunoscut labirintul trădării prin ochii lui George Smiley, aici vedem omul din spatele mitului, observând cum întâlnirile cu dizidenți precum Andrei Saharov sau foști lideri KGB au șlefuit temele ambiguității morale.

Fiecare capitol funcționează ca o piesă de puzzle care completează imaginea unui scriitor ce a refuzat mereu simplificările. The Pigeon Tunnel nu este doar o autobiografie, ci o lecție despre cum observația fină a detaliului uman — de la gesturile unui lucrător umanitar la tăcerile unui spion — devine fundația unei opere care a definit genul thrillerului politic timp de jumătate de secol.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780241976890
ISBN-10: 0241976898
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 126 x 195 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte tuturor celor care vor să înțeleagă cum se transformă experiența de viață în marea literatură. Cititorul câștigă acces la culisele unora dintre cele mai importante momente ale secolului XX, povestite de un observator care a fost prezent acolo unde istoria se scria în șoaptă. Este o lectură esențială pentru a descoperi scânteia umană din spatele personajelor legendare ale lui John Le Carré.


Despre autor

John Le Carré, pseudonimul lui David Cornwell (1931–2020), a fost un scriitor britanic de talie mondială, celebru pentru romanele sale de spionaj care au ridicat genul la rang de beletristică serioasă. După studii la Berna și Oxford, a predat la Eton și a servit în serviciile de informații britanice (MI5 și MI6) în timpul Războiului Rece. Această experiență directă a infuzat lucrări precum The Spy Who Came in from the Cold cu un realism și o complexitate psihologică fără precedent. De-a lungul unei cariere de peste cincizeci de ani, a explorat tensiunile etice ale politicii globale, rămânând unul dintre cei mai lucizi cronicari ai condiției umane în vremuri de criză.


Notă biografică

John le Carré was born in 1931. For six decades, he wrote novels that came to define our age. The son of a confidence trickster, he spent his childhood between boarding school and the London underworld. At sixteen he found refuge at the university of Bern, then later at Oxford. A spell of teaching at Eton led him to a short career in British Intelligence (MI5&6). He published his debut novel, Call for the Dead, in 1961 while still a secret servant. His third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, secured him a worldwide reputation, which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People. At the end of the Cold War, le Carré widened his scope to explore an international landscape including the arms trade and the War on Terror. His memoir, The Pigeon Tunnel, was published in 2016 and the last George Smiley novel, A Legacy of Spies, appeared in 2017. He died on 12 December 2020.

Recenzii

Fascinating, important, pithy. Anyone interested in le Carré and his significant contribution to the literature of the 20th and 21st centuries will want to read these engaging meanderings through his life and career.He has plenty to say about Kim Philby, the movie business, fellow spooks and Russian defectors, encounters with the great and good, and his intrepid travels to research his novels
Vintage le Carré ... [he] remains a magician of plot and counter-plot, a master storyteller
John le Carré is as recognizable a writer as Dickens or Austen
When I was under house arrest I was helped by the books of John le Carré ... they were a journey into the wider world ... These were the journeys that made me feel that I was not really cut off from the rest of humankind
No other writer has charted - pitilessly for politicians but thrillingly for readers - the public and secret histories of his times
A smashing read
Offers thrills of recognition as le Carré's archetypes spring to life... The 84-year old novelist discards extended narrative and writes in elegiac fragments with linking harmonies, like the late works of that other German Romantic, Beethoven
Exceptionally well-turned and enjoyable
Grippingly written, it is revealing in ways the author never intended it to be
Cagey, clever, revealing
le Carré is a master of the art... fascinatingly readable
Frank and fascinating
The Pigeon Tunnel is a delight... a collection of highly polishes oddments from a life, assembled to entertain and inform...fabulously funny
A snapshot of a story that is, truly, as extraordinary as any of his fiction
For me The Pigeon Tunnel just confirms the enigma... extremely humorous... at no point do I feel that I knew one tiny bit more than he wants me to know
He has written an uproarious, darkly poignant and precious book
A beautiful book. The great glory of it is it comes close to unlocking the central mystery of le Carré
As enthralling as his fiction
Le Carré is such a good writer . . . Though urbane and detached, there is rage simmering not far below the surface of both le Carré and his new book. But then, nothing, absolutely nothing, is what it seems
A deeply personal and touching account of le Carré's life ... it has undeniable power
Explosive
le Carré's The Pigeon Tunnel is exquisite
I savoured the gravelly, quietly insistent voice of a master storyteller examining his own life
the entertaining recollections of a raconteur
Elusive and frank and witty by turns, the spy master gives away just as much of himself as he wants to in The Pigeon Tunnel, tracing the story of his life through his walk-on parts in the history and mythology of the cold war, and the shape-shifting discipline of his imagination

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THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING MEMOIR OF SPY-WRITING LEGEND JOHN LE CARRÉ

'As recognizable a writer as Dickens or Austen' Financial Times


From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War to a career as a writer, John le Carré has lived a unique life.

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 interviewing a German terrorist in her desert prison or watching Alec Guinness preparing for his role as George Smiley, this book invites 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.

'No other writer has charted - pitilessly for politicians but thrillingly for readers - the public and secret histories of his times' Guardian

'When I was under house arrest I was helped by the books of John le Carré . . . These were the journeys that made me feel that I was not really cut off from the rest of humankind' Aung San Suu Kyi