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Cargando... El Honorable colegial (1977)por John le Carré
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. George Smiley se ha convertido en el jefe del maltrecho servicio secreto británico en el tiempo en que las traiciones de un agente doble soviético han acribillado la red de espionaje. Smiley quiere venganza. Su método es el ataque, la presa es Karla, el escenario de la batalla es Hong Kong y el arma elegida es el honorable Jerry Westerby, el brazo oriental, amante apasionado y agente secreto experimentado y temerario. Y comienza el juego aterrador… Hay un negativo. Existe una zona de sombra, una zona de la que Bill Haydon nunca se ocupó o, mejor, si lo hizo fue para borrar pistas. Y Bill Haydon fue el topo desenmascarado por Smiley, el hombre que desde el mismo centro de poder y decisión del Servicio Secreto británico mantenía constantemente informados a los soviéticos de los movimientos ingleses y norteamericanos. Y la existencia de ese negativo en Extremo Oriente tiene que probar -Smiley se aferra a la idea de que forzosamente tiene que demostrarlo-, que Karla prepara una operación de envergadura en aquella zona. Tal vez por ahí podría empezarse la reconstrucción del Circus. Pero, para ello, se necesitan agentes libres de toda sospecha, individuos que no hayan sido detectados o conocidos por Haydon. Y Smiley cree haber dado con el hombre preciso: un aristócrata tan digno y frustrado como la propia Gran Bretaña, un honorable colegial cuya dignidad aristocrática estará a punto de dar al traste con una contraoperación que se revela sucia, como todas las operaciones de espionaje, pero en la que reside la gran oportunidad de que el Circus renazca de sus cenizas.
A retired missionary and his daughter, a Hong Kong policeman, an Italian orphan, an English schoolmaster, an American narcotics agent, a slovenly Kremlinologist, a mad bodyguard, the quite splendid Craw -- all are burned on the brain of the reader. If they are not marooned in loneliness, their cynicism corrodes or they go blank when there are no explanations, only helicopters. Loneliness, in fact, rather than betrayal, is the leitmotif. It is the leper's bell around their necks. They have only themselves to be true to, and they are no longer sure who they are. Not a page of this book is without intelligence and grace. Not a page fails to suggest that we carry around with us our own built-in heart of darkness. The Honourable Schoolboy brings the second sequence to a heavy apotheosis. A few brave reviewers have expressed doubts about whether some of the elements which supposedly enrich le Carré later manner might not really be a kind of impoverishment, but generally the book has been covered with praise - a response not entirely to be despised, since The Honourable Schoolboy is so big that it takes real effort to cover it with anything. At one stage I tried to cover it with a pillow, but there it was, still half visible, insisting, against all the odds posed by its coagulated style, on being read to the last sentence... Smiley's fitting opponent is Karla, the KGB's chief of operations. Smiley has Karla's photograph hanging in his office, just as Montgomery had Rommel's photograph hanging in his caravan. Karla, who made a fleeting physical appearance in the previous novel, is kept offstage in this one - a sound move, since like Moriarty he is too abstract a figure to survive examination. But the tone of voice in which le Carré talks about the epic mental battle between Smiley and Karla is too sublime to be anything but ridiculous. 'For nobody, not even Martello, quite dared to challenge Smiley's authority.' In just such a way T. E. Lawrence used to write about himself. As he entered the tent, sheiks fell silent, stunned by his charisma. Contenido enContieneTiene la adaptaciónTiene como guía de estudio aPremiosDistincionesListas de sobresalientes
George Smiley has become chief of the battered British Secret Service. The betrayals of a Soviet double agent have riddled the spy network. Smiley wants revenge. He chooses his weapon: Jerry Westerby, 'The Honourable Schoolboy', a passionate lover and a seasoned, reckless secret agent. Westerby is pointed east, to Hong Kong. So begins the terrifying game ... 'His command of detail is staggering, his straightforward, unaffected prose is superb. In short, wonderful value' The Sunday Times No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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