“The hyena who stalks the capitalist deserts”: imagining the ‘anti-Bond’ in the works of John le Carré

IF 0.8 3区社会学 Q1 HISTORY

Intelligence and National Security Pub Date : 2023-01-30 DOI:10.1080/02684527.2023.2168333

Joseph Oldham

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Abstract

ABSTRACT John le Carré’s spy fiction has long been hailed as an ‘opposite’ to Ian Fleming’s James Bond stories. This article re-examines this rivalry, first exploring how le Carré’s breakthrough, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963) subverts the conventional Bondian narrative. I then examine le Carré’s development of a thesis on Bond as a figure whose consumerist qualities negated any moral core, an idea later developed into a subversion of the Bond persona in The Tailor of Panama (1996). Ultimately I argue that le Carré needed Bond as a rival against which to position his own oeuvre.

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“游走于资本主义沙漠的鬣狗”：约翰·勒卡雷笔下的“反邦德”想象

约翰·勒卡雷的间谍小说长期以来一直被誉为伊恩·弗莱明的詹姆斯·邦德故事的“反面”。这篇文章重新审视了这种竞争，首先探讨了勒卡雷的突破性作品《从寒冷中进来的间谍》（1963）是如何颠覆传统的邦迪叙事的。然后，我研究了勒卡雷关于邦德作为一个消费主义品质否定了任何道德核心的人物的论文的发展，这一想法后来发展成了对《巴拿马裁缝》（1996）中邦德形象的颠覆。最终，我认为勒卡雷需要邦德作为竞争对手来定位自己的作品。

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