![]() Part of Serena’s indoctrination is a review of the efforts of the Comintern and CIA propaganda branches to support their own literary favourites. She is brought into MI5, and becomes part of a low-level propaganda campaign, providing a disguised income to Tom, a promising novelist who writes about freedom and creativity. Serena gradually learns to doubt the surface messages. Characters spin their stories in their own way and have their favoured versions of the truth. Our protagonist, Serena (!) is first educated about ruling class propaganda in The Times of London and elsewhere by her left-leaning tutor, who turns out to be a Russian agent. It purports to be about propaganda and literature: both literature as a form of propaganda and propaganda in other forms. ![]()
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