James Bond: The Authorized Biography Of 007
Hello, dear listeners!
The time has come for a major announcement. This will come as a surprise to many, possibly a shock to some. Mathieu and Edgar have been doing this show for well over a year now. On a weekly basis, they’ve delved into the fictional life of James Bond 007 in all its shapes and forms, from Fleming to the films and everything in between.
But this week will be different. Very much so in fact.
Now is the moment to peel back the onion layers and reveal details of life and times of the real James Bond! Yes, the hosts found a book by John Pearson titled James Bond: The Authorized Biography, in which its author relates many juicy details of 007’s early life and career as a secret agent directly from the man himself. His family, his loves, his world travels at an early age, his WWII service, his trials and tribulations while working for Her Majesty’s Secret Service, as well as how another author, Ian Fleming, who knew Bond, made use of the agent’s exciting life to publish a series of novels, fictionalizing his adventures.
What’s that now? You don’t believe this to be true? Well, come now, it’s perfectly normal to scoff at the notion that James Bond was an actual person who existed because of what we know of the Fleming novels and films. You see, that’s the brilliance of this book. By publishing this “biography”, the world gets to know Bond’s real life whilst not believing that any of it is actually real. Very cloak and dagger, just like the real man himself. Art imitates life imitating art inspired by life. It’s really quite clear when you stop and think about it for a moment. By posing this as a piece of fiction, the reality is therefore concealed by the fiction therein, itself inspired by reality.
So let us begin the summer reading season with something a little different, a not real book about a real person whose not real life was written by a real person who created a not real version of the real person this not real book is examining.
Sheer brilliance.
The time has come for a major announcement. This will come as a surprise to many, possibly a shock to some. Mathieu and Edgar have been doing this show for well over a year now. On a weekly basis, they’ve delved into the fictional life of James Bond 007 in all its shapes and forms, from Fleming to the films and everything in between.
But this week will be different. Very much so in fact.
Now is the moment to peel back the onion layers and reveal details of life and times of the real James Bond! Yes, the hosts found a book by John Pearson titled James Bond: The Authorized Biography, in which its author relates many juicy details of 007’s early life and career as a secret agent directly from the man himself. His family, his loves, his world travels at an early age, his WWII service, his trials and tribulations while working for Her Majesty’s Secret Service, as well as how another author, Ian Fleming, who knew Bond, made use of the agent’s exciting life to publish a series of novels, fictionalizing his adventures.
What’s that now? You don’t believe this to be true? Well, come now, it’s perfectly normal to scoff at the notion that James Bond was an actual person who existed because of what we know of the Fleming novels and films. You see, that’s the brilliance of this book. By publishing this “biography”, the world gets to know Bond’s real life whilst not believing that any of it is actually real. Very cloak and dagger, just like the real man himself. Art imitates life imitating art inspired by life. It’s really quite clear when you stop and think about it for a moment. By posing this as a piece of fiction, the reality is therefore concealed by the fiction therein, itself inspired by reality.
So let us begin the summer reading season with something a little different, a not real book about a real person whose not real life was written by a real person who created a not real version of the real person this not real book is examining.
Sheer brilliance.
