--- William Ahearn <
williamahearn@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> > and THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD
didn't
> > convince
> > you?
>
> I don't think it's a genre book. That's what
you
> don't
> get.
***************************************************** Well,
William, if THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD is not a genre
book, what is it? LeCarre has spent his professional life
writing an entire series of espionage novels, many of which
connect to each other. They're brilliant. They certainly
stand up to several readings at different times in ones life.
But LeCarre is a genre writer just as Forsyth or Clancy or
Cussler. LeCarre may be a better writer than Clancy or
Cussler; I personally don't think he's better than Forsyth
but they're in the same league, still what he writes, what
they all write, is genre fiction. You can argue that not all
Graham Greene's work was for the same genre. But as far as I
know everything LeCarre wrote using that name, and I've read
a lot of it, is espionage genre. It certainly isn't main
sream fiction and the espionage element is always present.
Because a work is well executed, well plotted, with well
drawn characters does not remove it from the genre it is
designed to upgrade.
Patrick King
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