The British newspaper the Telegraph offers a piece on John le Carre and the new biography of the spy novelist.
John
le Carré is one of the great English mysteries, like Stonehenge or the Princes
in the Tower. "I'm a liar," he says. "Born to lying, bred to it, trained to
it by an industry that lies for a living, practised in it as a novelist."
One
of the reasons that Adam Sisman's new biography has been so eagerly awaited is
that it promised, with its subject's help, to unpick the contradictions and
obfuscations in le Carré's own accounts of his life.
Le
Carré may be ready to tell the
truth. He turned 84 on Monday, and like many people in old age seems to have
been visited by a new compulsion to set the record straight. When I interviewed
him a couple of years ago and thanked him at the end for answering my questions
so fully, he replied: "Yes, I didn't mean to."
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