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Kingsley Amis presents a detailed, critically structured dossier tracing the character and judging claims about Bond as either an idealized mid-century figure or a marker of decadence and corruption. 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He has compiled his dossier with a ruthless precision and thoroughness that would be the envy of Dr No, Auric Goldfinger or even Ernst Stavro Blofeld.  \nThis may be the most revealing document ever to fall into the hands of Bond's enemies. But will any of them relish the conclusions it points to?  \nJacket design by Jan Pienkowski based on the famous trompe l ’œil paintings by Richard Chopping reproduced on the jackets ofthe James Bond books.  \nTHE JAMES BOND DOSSIER  \nKINGSLEY AMIS  \n1965  \nTo Caroleen and Bob Conquest  \nTABLE OF CONTENTS  \nPreface  \n1 The Man who is only a Silhouette  \n2 Sit down, 007  \n3 Going Slowly to Pieces  \n4 No Woman had ever held this Man  \n5 Beautiful firm breasts  \n6 A glint ofred  \n7 Damnably clear grey eyes  \n8 Warm Dry Handshakes  \n9 We may be slow, but...  \n10 Elegant Scene  \n11 The Shertel-Sachsenberg system  \n12 Y*b **nna mat!  \n13 Upas-tree  \n14 The Beautiful Red and Black Fish  \nAPPENDIX A-SCIENCE FICTION  \nAPPENDIX B-LITERATURE AND ESCAPE  \nAPPENDIX C- ‘SADISM’  \nSUMMARY REFERENCE GUIDE  \nPreface  \nThis essay started life in my mind as a modest article of about five thousand words. As you can see, it grew in the writing. For every point I made I discovered two fresh ones that needed making, so that at times I wondered if I was ever going to get to the finish.  \nIn a way, this experience confirms what I felt about the Bond books before I ever started work on them. Indeed, part of my motive for writing about them was my conviction, vague at that stage but firm, that they were more than simple cloak-and-dagger stories with a bit of fashionable affluence and sex thrown in. I suspected that, on the contrary, I would find them to be just as complex and to have just as much in them as more ambitious kinds of fiction. I was right.  \nI felt too, perhaps more strongly, that the works of Mr Fleming deserved a thorough look because of the scale on which they are read. In paperback form, nine of them have now passed the million mark. I was also impressed by the motive for which every one of these readers reads them: pleasure. As a recently retired university teacher, I can’t help being slightly drawn to any form of writing which (like science fiction) reaches no part of its audience through compulsion. One volunteer is worth ten pressed men.  \nMost strongly of all, I felt that what little detailed discussion the books have received has been quite irresponsible. I can’t remember any comparable instance of sustained and unanimous inaccuracy in recent times. At the lowest reckoning, the adventures of James Bond are harmless tomfoolery. Mr Fleming’s critics make them sound like a systematic onslaught on everything decent and sensible in modern life. I intend in what follows to go into some of the reasons for these misrepresentations and to try to correct them. For the moment, at a safe distance from any names or pack-drill, let me suggest that getting into a state about Mr Fleming can spring from two causes, among others. Firstly, a covert recognition of his powers. To feel the attraction of something one disapproves of soon sharpens disapproval into anger. Secondly, an even more covert realization that, if Bond’s sexual qualifications were to become standardized as basic female demand, more than one kind of male would start finding himself very much in undemand. (This is often disguised as a muzzy puritanism, but more of that later.)  \nIt might seem unnecessary to end by saying that, quite apart fr","cbCaieCKQp9rK62l","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaieCKQp9rK62l","pdf",2058593,136,"English","# Preface\n# 1 The Man who is only a Silhouette\n# 2 Sit down, 007\n# 3 Going Slowly to Pieces\n# 4 No Woman had ever held this Man\n# 5 Beautiful firm breasts\n# 6 A glint of red\n# 7 Damnably clear grey eyes\n# 8 Warm Dry Handshakes\n# 9 We may be slow, but...\n# 10 Elegant Scene\n# 11 The Shertel-Sachsenberg system\n# 12 Y*b **nna mat!\n# 13 Upas-tree\n# 14 The Beautiful Red and Black Fish\n# Appendix A - Science Fiction\n# Appendix B - Literature and Escape\n# Appendix C - ‘Sadism’\n# Summary Reference Guide","[{\"question\":\"What is the purpose of the dossier in the book’s preface?\",\"answer\":\"The author sets out to examine Bond and the Bond books in depth, addressing reasons behind misrepresentations and attempting to correct them.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the author describe how the essay developed?\",\"answer\":\"The work began as a modest article but expanded during writing, with each point leading to new ones that required further discussion.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the author believe critics may misread Fleming’s work?\",\"answer\":\"The preface suggests criticism can stem from a covert recognition of Fleming’s powers—where attraction turns disapproval into anger—and from anxieties about Bond’s sexual appeal being generalized.\"}]","THE JAMES BOND DOSSIER - Kingsley Amis - 1 - Preface | PDF",1789989191,209]