Biographer Adam Sisman grapples with the deceptions of a committed fabulist in “The Secret Life of John le Carré.”
,” might lead you to believe it is a tawdry rush job, thrown together to cash in on prurient curiosity now that its subject — theWhile there is plenty of tabloid-worthy material between its covers, the book is nonetheless complex and consequential — a portrait of lifelong duplicity and betrayal as carried out by a novelist whose work so often focused on those themes.
“My infidelities,” he wrote to me at a time when, for better or worse, the issue had come to dominate our discussions, “produced in my life a duality & a tension that became almost a necessary drug for my writing, a dangerous edge of some kind … They are not therefore a ‘dark part’ of my life, separate from the ‘high literary calling,’ so to speak, but, alas, integral to it, & inseparable.
Sisman writes that he was easily able to identify 11 women with whom le Carré had affairs during his second marriage, “and I am aware that there were plenty more besides these.” The women themselves noted these influences right away, of course, when they would recognize scenes from their lives — and sometimes dialogue from their own conversations — turn up in their lover’s novels, often after he had already moved on to some other muse.
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