John Le Carré, The Night Manager

LynnDianne Beene (University of New Mexico)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.09: English Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary Britain , 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Kerry Myler (Newman University), Jenni Ramone (The Nottingham Trent University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1993

Places

England (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel
Spy and Espionage

Resources

John le Carré (pseudonym for David Moore Cornwell) solidified his literary and popular reputation with his Cold War novels in which the unlikely hero, the portly, donnish George Smiley, often struggled with the dehumanizing demands of this ideological conflict. As the Cold War receded, le Carré turned more to themes that intertwine global corruption with espionage conventions. Neophyte protagonists work with but often defy intelligence services for their own non-ideological, typically sentimental reasons. Bartholomew “Barley” Scott Blair, for example, a bookseller turned reluctant British agent, betrays his government controllers for love (The Russia House, 1989). Harry Pendel, a mild-mannered husband a…

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Citation: Beene, LynnDianne. "The Night Manager". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 06 August 2018 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=42, accessed 24 November 2024.]

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