The Berlin International Film Festival celebrated the English novelist John Le Carré, whose novel "Le tailleur de Panama" was adapted on screen by John Borman. During a press conference, the writer and ex-spy evoked his memories of the Cold War and his disappointments... He says, "There was no real will to build a new world at the end of the Cold War ... On the contrary, we have become mired in materialism and egoism that I find totally depressing. We who are involved in the Cold War have the right to feel betrayed by what happened afterwards."
Guest of the program "Lectures pour tous", John Le Carré speaks of his last literary success "Le miroir aux espions". He says he is "free" after a career in education, and speaks directly about his past as a former British secret service agent. He says: "It was rather boring than exciting".
John le Carré, guest of the program "Apostrophes", talks about his way of writing his spy novels. To the question of Bernard Pivot "Is the novel as you practice it a continuation of espionage in an entertaining form and especially less dangerous for you?" , he says, "These are disguised fables ... I want to be credible ... If the reader becomes part of my world, the goal is achieved".
British writer John Le Carré describes his relationship to money: "When I write well, I know I don’t need money, and when I write poorly, money doesn’t console me".
On the set of Apostrophes, interviewed by Bernard PIVOT, John LE CARRÉ explains why he chose this pseudonym. He had to borrow a pen name because he belonged to the secret service when he started writing. He tells the choice of his name.
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