Bond
Behind the Iron Curtain
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Bond
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Narrated by:
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James Fleming
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By:
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James Fleming
About this listen
The Book Collector presents Bond: Behind the Iron Curtain, written and read by James Fleming. The story starts with the full-page attack on James Bond, Ian Fleming and the film of Dr No that appeared in the Russian daily paper, Izvestiya, even before the film had been released.
"Who is Mr Ian Fleming, the creator of this—to put it mildly—rubbish?" The whole Bond phenomenon is attacked as pornography, capitalist filth and anti-socialist poison. Here, translated into English for the first time, you will also hear the long Russian critique of the Bond films by Maja Turovskaya published in 1966, and the extremely interesting account that appeared in Prague the following year of Sean Connery’s rise to fame. A bonus is the Bulgarian attempt to publish a novel in which Bond was killed.
If you want to know about the "bourgeois inferiority complex" that was the standard party line to mock anyone who enjoyed the adventures of James Bond, this is the audiobook for you.
Praise for Bond: Behind the Iron Curtain, by James Fleming:
"Hilarious." (The Oldie)
"Beguiling." (William Boyd, The Spectator)
"What an amazing story!" (Nicolas Barker)
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"Brilliant." (The Times)
"With this remarkably researched book, James Fleming has pulled off a rare feat...." (Literary Review)
"One of the best things I've ever read on Bond." (Daily Telegraph)