John le Carre''s Post-Cold War Fiction

This book challenges distinctions between popular and serious literature by recognizing le Carré as one of the most significant ethicists in contemporary fiction, contributing to an overdue reassessment of his literary stature. Le Carrés ten postCold War novels constitute a distinctive subset of his espionage fiction in their response to the momentous changes in geopolitics that began in the 1990s. Through a close reading of these novels, Snyder traces howamid the War on Terror and transnationalismle Carré weighes what is at stake in this conflict of deeply invested ideologies. See more