His intelligence career having evaporated, he took up writing, and wrote about what he knew-as long as he didn’t use real names, including his own, his minders at the service couldn’t do anything to stop him. His career came to an unceremonious end when his agent networks and those of almost all his colleagues were blown by the notorious double agent Kim Philby, who defected to the Soviet Union in 1963. After a brief stint teaching at Eton, he transferred to MI6, the secret service’s foreign counterpart, and spent several years running agents throughout Eastern Europe. In those days, every don at Oxford was a scout for some intelligence agency or another, unless of course he was a target of those agencies, and in no time at all, the young Cornwell found himself spying on left-wing student groups at the behest of MI5. Andrew’s boarding school for four years, studied languages at a university in Bern, Switzerland, for two, and thereafter found his way to that most virile breeding ground of British spies, Oxford University. His father was a gadabout con man and associate of the Kray crime family and was later arrested for insurance fraud his mother he knew hardly at all. Le Carré was born David Cornwell in 1931. No less than the spies in le Carré’s works, we live in a world in which everyone is both watcher and watched, a world surveilled to no end. Even 60 years after he began writing, and 30 years after the end of the Cold War, we are still living in a world that is stained and distorted by the ubiquity of observation, the inescapable reach of eyes and ears. It was the spiritual ambivalence of this act, more than the political discipline of espionage, that went on to become his most enduring theme. Indeed le Carré did write spy novels, in the sense that his characters are intelligence agents who work for the British secret service, but he also wrote novels about the more fundamental act of spying-the act of training one’s attention on the behavior of another, of learning about another person by watching them with intent and with attention. Le Carré, who died last year at the age of 89, has been celebrated for decades as a writer of what we might call elevated genre fiction-“spy novels.” Given that he emerged out of the Cold War and set most of his novels in that period, it was only natural that after his death he would be praised as a kind of period writer: The New York Times, in its obituary, noted that his “nuanced, intricately plotted Cold War thrillers elevated the spy novel to high art,” while The Guardian said he “raised the spy novel to a new level of seriousness and respect.” When Viking announced earlier this year that it planned to publish a posthumous le Carré novel called Silverview, one press release referred to the author as a “master of spy literature.” When you move, when you speak, when you write, there is always someone watching. It is not only the primary subject of his more than 20 works of fiction it is also the foundational fact of his writerly worldview, the single most important structural component of his narratives. Whether you are traveling to the City of Lights for work, a vacation or on a romantic getaway, you'll find our impeccable service and unique happenings make us the premier choice for your visit to Paris.The condition of being watched, observed, overheard, eavesdropped upon, monitored, followed, pursued, hunted-this is the essential condition of the novels of John le Carré. Select any of our indoor or outdoor venues to host impeccable business meetings, conferences, social events or a romantic wedding. Within our city centre hotel, you'll discover an elegantly-styled design complemented by our indoor and outdoor gardens, rooms and suites with deluxe amenities and views, incredible French dining at our restaurants and a 24-hour fitness center. Take a leisurely stroll to the Eiffel Tower, Arc-de-Triomphe and Champs Elysees, or ride the nearby Metro to explore further into Paris.
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