The Spy’s version: three novels on the Cambridge Five
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https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i4.7490Keywords:
spy fiction, Cold War, Cambridge FiveAbstract
Focussing on three novels inspired by the Cambridge Five – John Le Carré’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974), Graham Greene’s The Human Factor (1978) and John Banville’s The Untouchable (1997) – I will show how, dealing with a crucial episode of the British Cold War, the three novelists re-use modes and themes of spy fiction to provide an alternative narrative on national identity and on the position of the UK on the global geopolitical map. I will argue that spy fiction (and its adaptations) is the genre that best captures the major transformations that the UK underwent as a consequence of the fall of the Empire.
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