My Life in CIA: A Chronicle of 1973
by Harry Mathews
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Author: Harry MathewsEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-06-01
ISBN: 1564783928
Number of pages: 203
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
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Book Review: A fascinating story
Summary: 5 Stars
Harry Mathews is known as a member of OuLiPo, a group of writers that subject their narratives to non-literary, and often unintended, sides of structures. Thus, one could hesitate and think that this novel need to be read with paper and pen. It is rather the opposite, a page-turner. Deeper things will come as a bonus. His life in CIA, is a story of the writer living out the accusations of being a CIA agent, maybe unaware of Vonnegut's maxim: "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be" (Mother Night). When acting this way, his cogwheels clasps with other, and more sinister, ones and he enters purportedly naively into the world of mirrors. Where autobiography stops and fiction starts, we do not know, as he is a good stylist. Everything is quite consistent with true accounts of the intelligence world, so the accusations may linger on. He torpedos our ambition of knowing the truth, bringing us into the same uncertainties as his character's. It's a good thriller, unless you are looking for violence, and a very good read.
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