The Russia House
(John Le Carre)
The Russia House by John Le Carre:
Great literature in the guise of a spy novel?...or a spy novel which is great literature?...in the case of John Le Carre's THE RUSSIA HOUSE the answer is both.
Here, a skilled craftsman, working in his familiar spy genre, takes the suspense novel to new heights. With this novel he embarks on an expedition to explore the tributaries of the mind... where a yearning for love and meaning to life flows inside the story's protagonist Barley Blair.
The story is essentially a tirade against the lunacies of geopolitics in the twentieth century. It is an indictment against both East and West for their high-level posturing with each other.
Le Carre is showing us, through Blair and his relationship with the Russian woman Katya, that love can indeed build bridges, tear down walls, mend disputes, and reconcile people to one another.
This novel begins to show us that if mutual trust is allowed to grow and permeate unhindered throughout societies...that the hope of a promising future for all mankind can be a reality. The novel also hints at the opposite - that man carrying on as he has for centuries will be the ruin of us all. Le Carre through this story is warning us that mistrust and jockeying for global advantage amongst nations will bring an ending to all things sooner than we may think.
It is a novel that is as relevant in the new milleneium as it was when it was published in 1989...and will continue be relevant as long as nations choose the path of least resistance. That path is selfishness and a lack of true concern for each others welfare...a path where nations will march together headlong into destruction, all the while at each others throat until it is far, far, too late.
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