Learning at the feet of the master of treachery; THE IoS PROFILE: John le Carre At the age of 71 the creator of George Smiley has embarked on one last mission: to lay to rest the ghost of his feckless, wife-beating father

The Independent - London | February 17, 2002| | Copyright

John le Carre is apt to remember Graham Greene's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer. "I think that all writers feel alienated,"

Le Carre says. "Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know I do."

To those who have followed closely the career of the pre-eminent spy novelist of the Cold War era and beyond, the extraordinary forces that shaped Le Carre's literary personality are there in the books (some of them, anyway). But it is one thing to dress up autobiography in the guise of fiction, quite another, for this most private of writers, to ...

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