John Le Carr?'s Post-Cold War Fiction

By Robert Lance Snyder

This is an analysis of the first 10 post--Cold War novels of one of the most significant ethicists in contemporary fiction.

This book challenges distinctions between "popular" and "serious" literature by recognizing le Carr as one of the most significant ethicists in contemporary fiction, contributing to an overdue reassessment of his literary stature. Le Carr 's ten post-Cold 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 how--amid the "War on Terror" and transnationalism--le Carr weighs what is at stake in this conflict of deeply invested ideologies.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826220991
• ISBN13: 9780826220998
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher