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A Perfect Spy: With Ray McAnally, Rüdiger Weigang, Alan Howard, Peter Egan. The rise and fall of Magnus Pym and his career through intelligence. From chance meetings with people will be important to him in the future to a life in Czechoslovakia, Pym weaves his way through the complicated world of espionage.
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- 1987-11-04
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- Plot Overview
- Autobiographical Aspects
- Literary Significance
- Adaptations
A Perfect Spy is the life story of Magnus Pym, a British intelligence officer and double agent. The book opens in Vienna where Magnus is ostensibly a diplomat and also a spy, living with his wife Mary who assists with diplomatic matters and their son Tom. After returning to England to attend his father's funeral, Pym mysteriously disappears. As his...
A large part of the novel is a thinly disguised account of le Carré's own early life. Before he became a novelist, David Cornwell (John le Carré) was an intelligence officer for MI6, the British intelligence service, although there are no allegations that he ever betrayed his country and spied for another country like the character Magnus Pym. Like...
Matthew Bruccoli calls it "the book that is and may always be Le Carré's masterpiece". Philip Roth said it was "the best English novel since the war". David Denby, writing in 2014, agreed with Roth's view.
A 1987 TV adaptation of the same name was produced by the BBC starring Peter Egan. In 1993, a BBC radio adaptation in eight parts by Rene Basilico was broadcast, with James Fox as Magnus Pym, James Grout as Jack Brotherhood, Brenda Bruce as Miss Dubber and Harriet Walter as Mary Pym. In 2017, a radio adaptation of the same name was produced by BBC ...
- John Le Carré
- 1986
A Perfect Spy is a BBC serial adaptation of John le Carré's 1986 spy novel A Perfect Spy which was aired on BBC2 and broadcast from 4 November to 16 December 1987. It follows the career of the British MI6 spy Magnus Pym from his early days as a schoolboy to his eventual disappearance as a suspected agent of the Czech secret service.
No.TitleOriginal Air Date1"Episode 1"4 November 1987 ( 1987-11-04)2"Episode 2"11 November 1987 ( 1987-11-11)3"Episode 3"18 November 1987 ( 1987-11-18)4"Episode 4"25 November 1987 ( 1987-11-25)1987. Topics. John le Carré, BBC, A Perfect Spy, TV. "A Perfect Spy (1986) is a novel by British author John le Carré about the mental and moral dissolution of a high-level intelligence-officer. Major aspects of the novel are lifted from the real life of the author, including the relationship between the protagonist, Magnus Pym, and his ...
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A Perfect Spy. Born into espionage - the deadly deceptions of the life of a double agent in the Cold War. A classic John le Carré adaptation starring Peter Egan. Episode 1 (55 mins)
A Perfect Spy (Um Espião Perfeito) [ 1] é um romance de espionagem de John le Carré publicado em 17 de Março de 1986, que aborda a dissolução mental e moral de um agente secreto de alto nível. Enredo. Um Espião Perfeito é a história da vida de Magnus Pym, um oficial de inteligência britânico e um agente duplo.
12 de mar. de 1986 · March 6, 2023. Set in the cold war, A Perfect Spy by John le Carré is a compelling novel with a psychological depth rarely found in the genre. The book focuses on Magnus Pym, to whom the title alludes. Magnus is a model spy of the age; he is ambitious and glamorous with a beautiful wife and an intelligent son.
