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Chargement... The Life of Ian Fleming (original 1966; édition 1966)par John Pearson (Auteur)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Not as literate, academic, or as detailed as Andrew Lycett’s more recent biography of Fleming; this reread of Pearson’s early work, written not long after Fleming’s death, reminded me that it is still a highly approachable introduction to the complex history and character of James Bond’s creator. Taken as a loving tribute to a former friend and colleague it gives a degree of insight into what it must have been like to know Fleming, in as much as he allowed any of his friends to ever really know him. ( )
It is now over fifty years since the premiere of Dr No, the very first Bond film, with Sean Connery introducing 007 as the glamorous secret agent who would become the single most profitable movie character in the history of cinema. But James Bond was invented by one man, Ian Fleming, a wartime intelligence officer and Sunday Timesnewspaper man who lived to see only the very beginning of the Bond cult. Pearson, who worked with Fleming at theSunday Times, based this biography on his own memories of Fleming, on Fleming's private papers, and on a series of interviews with an extraordinary collection of Fleming's contemporaries - family, friends, enemies, teachers, colleagues, mistresses, and former spies from around the world. First published in 1966, John Pearson's famous biography remains the definitive account of how only Ian Fleming could have dreamed up James Bond, for he led a life as colourful as anything in his fiction, which in turn became a covert autobiography. Charming, debonair and a ruthless womaniser, globetrotting from wartime Algiers to beachside Jamaica, Fleming was as elusive and opaque as his imaginary creation. In his new introduction to this edition, Pearson examines the extent to which Fleming's character informs the movie portrayals of Bond, from Sean Connery through to Daniel Craig, and how Bond himself has achieved immortality beyond Fleming's wildest dreams. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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