The Compulsive Explainer

5/28/2009

John le Carré

Filed under: Literature — site admin @ 2:00 pm

Perhaps my tastes are declining, but I thoroughly enjoyed his latest book to be recorded Call for the Dead. He is an extremely clever fellow, not just a writer of spy-thrillers. Wikipedia says:

Le Carré is widely hailed as writing some of the most literary and philosophically significant genre fiction of the 20th century.

I can’t add much more to that.

5/11/2009

Madame de Staël

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5/9/2009

The Serious Novel Must be Taken Seriously

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4/16/2009

Giving Chance a Chance

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3/24/2009

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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2/19/2009

Wanna be educated?

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8/29/2008

People who need history

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8/15/2008

Les Miserables

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