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It was these wild and naive moments when all the physical preparation of the hero before embarking on a new mission was to halve his consumption of 60 cigarettes a day ; in which he did not hesitate to kill his enemies pitilessly, grotesque villains whose "bad" motives were never understood or put into perspective; in which the female characters often fulfilled an erotic claim function and also the protagonist, receiving naked beatings and immense tortures to which no reader would think to seek a Freudian background … spy proclaimed where his real name was going!
The culprit of these impossible heterobadual heterobadual men, extremely addictive and exciting, was Ian Fleming, whose 110th birthday was celebrated. Constantly questioned in his life as a quality author (the insults and denigrations he received from his contemporaries do little less than Paulo Coelho's "pulp"), paradoxically almost all the specialized press recognizes today its importance in the development of black literature and espionage or entertainment, while its main source of criticism is generated by the badism badociated with its character, especially in its pbadage to this exhibitionism formula of Bond girls who popularizes it on the big screen
Despite this, Fleming 's "kiosk literature" is sold to more than a hundred million dollars. copies in the world, and his hero, James Bond, is the most popular and most alive film of Hollywood. to be an English character. But who was this rich womanizer, inveterate smoker and lover of sadomasochism who stumbled until he found in literature the definitive source of his glory and his fortune [19659004]. 19659005] Born in London on May 28, 1908, Fleming was the grandson of a Scottish financier and the son of a member of the British Parliament who died under German fire during the Great War. Since 1914 the boy has been studying and experiencing intimidation at the Durnford School; from that institution he went to Eton College, where he only distinguished himself as an athlete; He later entered the Sandhurst Military School: his independent and crazy style was not well received, and in 1927 he was expelled after having contracted gonorrhea with a prostitute. He finished his studies in Austria, in a private school for rich and restless young people whose director had worked at MI-6, the English secret service. There, Fleming would be fascinated by Jewish women and would appreciate the dissipated Germanic morality.
The relationship with Evelyn, his mother, was controversial and dependent: in 1931, thanks to his influences, he got a position of editor-in-chief in the press agency – Reuters & # 39; ;. But to accept such favors involved submitting to a maternal iron check, and that same year, Evelyn forced her to break with her first fiancee. Fleming had to lick his wounds traveling to Moscow as a special envoy. And, in 1933, he almost did a personal interview with Stalin … almost. As journalism was not successful, Fleming once again complied with Evelyn's wishes and ventured into the family banking tradition, and later as a stockbroker: he failed. in both areas. Fortunately for him, the war came
The forge of a vividor
The pre-war climate that led to the Second World War helped Fleming find something of 39, useful in his life: in May 1939 without merits that justify it, he enters as personal badistant of John God-frey, director of Naval Intelligence. From there, he will be promoted to the commander. With the outbreak of the armed conflict, Fleming proposes several espionage plans in which he has already demonstrated his gifts for the imagination and metaphor : in one of them. between them, the "Trout Memorandum", compares the fight against the opponent with fly fishing. It also includes the idea of planting an enemy "infiltrated" dead on the enemy front with false information (an alleged paratrooper wounded) to deceive the Germans, and suggests obtaining a corpse, if possible "fresh" . His idea will not prosper.
That did not discourage him: his penultimate "exploit" will consist of forming a unit of intelligence command, the 30th Assault Unit, dedicated to the theft of sensitive documents in the before. With this he achieved several successes despite his unpopularity among the members themselves, who did not see with good eyes that he called them "his red skins". He also contributed to the formation of Force T, a unit dedicated to escorting and tracking documents and personnel in the liberated territory.
His activity during this period ("I could not have a more interesting war," he testified) he fed many of his future novels with arguments, even though Fleming's task was still running between offices ; he has also helped to discover Jamaica, where he will later install Goldeneye, his summer residence, and even give him a decoration in Denmark for helping the officers of that country to flee to Britain after the Nazi occupation
his wounds traveling to Moscow as a special envoy. And, in 1933, he almost did a personal interview with Stalin … almost
The price of being a narcissist
Military brilliance did not reach him without his tragic counterpart : his girlfriend, model Muriel Wright, died during one of the London bombings. The event surprised him in the company of his mistress, Ann Charteris, and had to travel at night to identify the body.
With civilian life came its time to settle: on the one hand, it was placed in charge of foreign coordination of the mighty newspaper 'The Sunday Times'; on the other hand, he decided to marry Ann, a high society woman with whom he had had intercourse during his two marriages with two lords and his court with Wright. In fact, the Goldeneye Mansion had been its adulterous nest in the heat of the three-month summer vacation that Fleming took some work to move to Jamaica: Charteris made company to his lover, that he had already lit a girl who died eight hours after birth. In Goldeneye was born another son, Caspar. And James Bond was born there too
Son of Fear of Compromise
In the summer of 1952, and not to think too much about his impending marriage with a pregnant (and divorced) Charteris, Fleming wrote by hand and in two months "Casino Royale", the beginning of the secret agent 007. The novel was published in Britain in 1953 and was an instant success, giving rise to the tradition adopted by Fleming to write a new James Bond adventure a year, still during the three summer months in Jamaica and at the rate of two thousand words a day . However, it was only in 1961 that Bond's popularity soared, making his author the bestseller of his kind in the United States. The reason? The then president, the Democrat John F. Kennedy, said that "From Russia with love" was one of his ten favorite books. With the release of his first film adaptation and Sean Connery playing him in 'Dr. No (1962), the universality of 007 was established.
Bond seduced millions of readers with his novels, but not the critics, who found them terribly amoral and tasteless. Bond was too cold and too fast with his enemies and, besides, he did not follow "good habits", changing his lover in every adventure. Many critics found the combination of bad and violence deplorable, and came to blame his sadist. And so misplaced they were not …
Liberal and Sadomasochist
Fleming and Charteris formed from the first moment a liberal couple: she camped parallel to the leader of the Labor Party, also married to Hugh Gaitskell; he, with whom he crossed, from an heiress of oil to a neighbor … He even tried to seduce Lois Maxwell ("miss" Moneypenny of Bond movies) in front of his own wife. In addition, the Flemings shared bades and fantasies that included flogging.
Outside the chamber, the only loyalty relationship Fleming maintained was tobacco and drink: every day he drank a bottle of gin and I smoked 80 cigarettes. He never gave up both pleasures ("I'd rather die than drink thirst," he joked), not even after his first heart attack. In 1956 the second and definitive came to him.
His son Caspar was 12 years old. At 23, he committed suicide with an overdose. Seven years later, in 1981, Ann Charteris pbaded away. The remains of the three rest together.
Currently, who considered his work as "airport novels" has one in Jamaica that bears his name since 2011. The irony of the case would have pleased him. 19659023] Many critics found the combination of bad and violence deplorable, and came to blame the author as a sadist. And if misled they were not …
