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RIP John le Carre

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  • #2
    McGinniesta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,402 ✭✭✭McGinniesta


    go on the John le carre. R.I.P


  • #3
    Edgware
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,874 ✭✭✭Edgware


    The man who came in from the cold. Richard Burton gave a great performance.
    Best Cold War film


  • #4
    Kaybaykwah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,349 ✭✭✭Kaybaykwah


    What's this I heard on FranceInter radio this A.M?


    John Le Carré had changed nationality, and become Irish both as an emotional allegiance to Irish forebears and as a reaction to Brexit.


  • #5
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 2,725 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    He was extremely anti-Brexit. Passionate believe in the European project.

    Reading some of his novels again at the moment. He really was a fine writer.


  • #6
    seenitall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,724 ✭✭✭seenitall


    A Perfect Spy is a must-read IMO, his most autobiographical novel, a gripping thriller, a brilliantly crafted book and ever so slightly philosophically evocative of a great deal of sadness and darkness (i.e. of the ‘human condition’). One of my favourite books overall, there are a few sentences that I go back to from time to time as the themes just resonate with my own life so powerfully (his depiction of profound family disfunction, having a horrible narcissist for a parent and how that fcuks you up for life, and sets you up for a lifetime of absolute inner loneliness, just as an example). So much more than a first rate thriller (which it is, of course).


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  • #7
    Junkyard Tom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    Died an Irish citizen.


  • #8
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    could have played for ireland then?


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