by John Le Carré · Plaza & Janes Editores, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401499807
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«El amante ingenuo y sentimental» is the novel by John Le Carré, published by Plaza & Janés Editores in paperback (527 pages, in Spanish).
Aldo Cassidy, a prosperous industrialist with a bourgeois and monotonous life, yearns for the passion he lacks. Aldo Cassidy meets the writer Shamus and his wife Helen, and enters a turbulent relationship that confronts his conventions. With irony, the novel portrays the pretensions of the middle class and the bohemian set and their search for freedom and authenticity.
The original title is «The Naive and Sentimental Lover»; the novel was first published in 1971. This edition belongs to the Los JET collection from Plaza & Janés.
It will appeal to readers of John Le Carré who want to discover his satirical side and to those who enjoy novels of character and social irony.
David John Moore Cornwell, known by his pen name John le Carré, was an English author. Many of his espionage novels have been adapted for film or television. He has been described as a "sophisticated, morally ambiguous writer", and is considered one of the greatest novelists of the postwar era. During the 1950s and 1960s, he worked for both the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). Near the end of his life, le Carré became an Irish citizen.
