秘密朝圣者
The Secret Pilgrim
John le Carré · 初版 1990 年
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博弈的规则乃至世界的规则已经改变。昔日的宿敌如今向 glasnost 和 perestroika 低头。冷战的杀戮阴影已迎来破晓的曙光。未来难以捉摸。柏林墙倒塌，铁幕被扫除。The Secret Pilgrim 即是 Ned，一名正派、忠诚的冷战老兵，成年后一生都在 British Intelligence 服役。如今，职业生涯行将结束，他被迫在时代剧变的洪流中重新审视那些秘密岁月。他展现了他的英雄兼导师 George Smiley 勇敢的过去与更加英勇的现在，Smiley 给予……
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我投《The Secret Pilgrim》（秘密朝圣者）一票。它是由 Smiley 在新兵培训期间讲述的一连串关于“处里”（the Service）的零星轶事构成的。我记得看完这本书时，对那些残破、破碎的……感到一种深深的怜悯。
I nominate The Secret Pilgrim. It's a sequence of vignettes about the Service as related by Smiley during a training session for new recruits. I remember finishing the book, and feeling a profound sense of pity for the broken, fractured…
对我来说是《The Secret Pilgrim》。它恰好捕捉到了 Le Carre 彻底看清真相的那一刻，他发现自己甚至连部分维护他笔下人物所寄生的那个社团主义国家都做不到了……
For me, it was The Secret Pilgrim. It catches Le Carre at the precise moment when the final scales fell away from his eyes, and he found himself unable to defend even partially the corporatist state that his characters had inhabited…
……被运走，以换取消除当初部署的原因——即美国在土耳其部署了导弹）。尽管这些书是虚构小说，但 John Le Carre 在《The Secret Pilgrim》里总结得很到位，虽然是从西方 PoV 出发的（不过平均来看，苏联那边大概也能得出类似的结论）：Smiley 琢磨着，冷战中最庸俗的一点就是西方社会……
…were taken away in exchange for removal of the reason they were placed there - which was USA placing missiles in Turkey). As much as the books are fiction, John Le Carre summarised it pretty well in The Secret Pilgrim although from the western PoV (but similar take could be probably pretty much taken about soviets on the average): Smiley muses that the most vulgar thing about the Cold War was that the Western societies…