Boekverslag John le Carre

Info over dit verslag

Geschreven door:	go! [meer]
Kwaliteit:
Waardering:
Taal:	Engels
Woorden:	687
Opvragingen:	25

Hulpmiddeltjes

Openen in tekstverwerker

Printen

Emailen

Waardering

Gemiddelde waardering: 1 uit 5 (1 stem)

Heb je er iets aan gehad? Geef zelf je waardering:
Erg goed bruikbaar
Goed bruikbaar
Bruikbaar
Een beetje bruikbaar
Niks aan gehad

Titels van John le Carre

• A murder of quality / Voetsporen in de sneeuw (2)

  1962

• Call for the dead (2)

  1961

• The spy who came in from the cold (4)

  1965

Name of this book: Call for the dead

Writer: John le Carré

Place and time
The city where it takes place is in front of London. This story takes places after the Second World War.

Leading figure:
George Smiley is the detective, he found out who the murderer was.
Arthur Fennan was murdered.
Elsa Fennan, she was the wife of Arthur Fennan.
Dieter Frey, he was the client of the murder.

Summary
George Smiley was married with Lady Ann, she left him. On Monday, January 2nd George Smiley had a meeting with Samuel Arthur Fennan in the park, to discuss an anonymous letter. There they were being spied, by an agent of the German Intelligence Service, who worked with Smiley during the war. But they didn’t know. The following night of January 3rd, the police reported at Smiley that Arthur Fennan had killed himself. Smiley goes to Fennan's house, there Elsa Fennan was (Artur’s wife). When he was talking to her, the phone rang. It was at 8:30 p.m. Elsa said that Arthur was found dead in the hall, with a gun next to him. He left a drink on the table and left a suicide letter. Smiley thought it was not obvious that Arthur had killed himself in the hall, when he hadn’t finished his drink. Smiley went home. There he saw a man at his door, he didn’t know who he was. Later on, it gets clear that the man at his door was from the German Intelligence Service. Smiley went to the garage. There Smiley got beaten on his back and was left unconscious. 3 weeks later Adam, the owner of the garage, was found dead in the river. Before Fennan's dead, he worked for Dieter Frey. Frey saw Fennan talking to Smiley in the park and thought he was telling the truth about his spying activities. He told Mundt to kill Fennan. Elsa Fennan had to type a suicide letter. Elsa and Mundt brought similar music-cases to the theatre and exchanged these. In hers there was information, in his there were money and instructions. Once, Elsa forgot the case and had to pick it up. That's why she ordered the 8:30 call. When Smiley came the next day, she was so frightened that she called Mundt, who assaulted Smiley. Smiley knew the techniques that Dieter used, because of their cooperation years ago. Smiley sends Dieter a card to come to the theatre and Elsa too. Elsa went to the theatre. The seat on her right was empty. Dieter came to the theatre too, and sat by Elsa. Dieter realised he was trapped. Dieter killed Elsa during the show. Smiley followed Dieter to the harbour and wanted to arrest him. They got into a fight and Dieter fell in the water. He was dead.

My opinion
What I liked: It was exciting, and you know on the last page who the murder is. Not earlier!
What I didn’t like: It was difficult to read, an English book and it’s difficult to write this in English. What I didn’t like too, is that there are many people murdered in this book.

John le Carré
John le Carré was born in 1931. After attending the universities of Berne and Oxford, he taught at Eton and spent five years in the British Foreign Service. The spy who came in from the cold, his third book, secured him a worldwide reputation.

John le Carré is the nom de plume of David John Moore Cornwell, who was born in 1931 in Poole, Dorset, and was educated at Sherborne School, at the University of Berne (where he studied German literature for a year) and at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he graduated with a first-class honours degree in modern languages

He taught at Eton from 1956 to 1958 and was a member of the British Foreign Service from 1959 to 1964, serving first as Second Secretary in the British Embassy in Bonn and subsequently as Political Consul in Hamburg. He started writing novels in 1961, and since then has published nineteen titles.