It's SUCH an intensely solipsistic book! "Brilliant, cruel" is very much how I felt about the ending as well, it's so maddening to never meet Larry but also SO clearly the right authorial choice to have him exist literally only through Tim from start to finish, no outside perspective or point of comparison for any of what we get via Tim's god complex megalomania about the man AT ALL. (And of course we really REALLY want that outside perspective after the jarring experience of actually meeting Emma...) WHAT a book, honestly, le Carré had such things in his brain.
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Date: 2024-04-05 02:49 am (UTC)It's SUCH an intensely solipsistic book! "Brilliant, cruel" is very much how I felt about the ending as well, it's so maddening to never meet Larry but also SO clearly the right authorial choice to have him exist literally only through Tim from start to finish, no outside perspective or point of comparison for any of what we get via Tim's god complex megalomania about the man AT ALL. (And of course we really REALLY want that outside perspective after the jarring experience of actually meeting Emma...) WHAT a book, honestly, le Carré had such things in his brain.