The Russia House (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: John le Carre
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The late 1980’s
- Setting: Moscow, London, and other locations in the Soviet Union, the United States, and Europe
- Principal Characters: Barley Scott Blair, Yakov Savelyev, Katya Orlova, Harry De Palfrey, Niki Landau
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Communism or communists, Love or romance, Books, Publishing or publishers, Espionage or spies, Russia or Russian people, Soviet Union or Soviets, Secret service, Military art or science
- Locales: Europe, United States, Soviet Union, London, England, Moscow, Russia
The spy story is a quintessential product of the Cold War, dealing as it does with the attempts by one side or the other, capitalist West or Communist East, to gain the edge in military technology or military intelligence which may prove decisive; or, even more important, to prevent the other side from making the same breakthrough. John le Carre’s third novel, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1963), indeed envisaged an attempt to escape from the Cold War stalemate, in individual terms; but it ended, significantly, in death and failure.
What, then, of the advent of...
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