Staffars Serier (boss@staffars.se)
Fri, 26 Nov 1999 22:51:18 +0100
Ray Newman:
> > Re Amis' 'Colonel Sun', Fleming's widow was
vociferously averse to his
> > writing a Bond book. Apparently she thought
Amis would change 007 into
> > 'Lucky Jim Bond', careering through the streets
of Wigan with a gun in one
> > hand and fish-n-chips in the other. And she
thought he would insinuate all
> > sorts of disgusting socialist proapaganda into
the novel.
>
>I think Amis puts in more than enough crass
anti-communism to compensate
>for any fears she may have had. But then, Amis had a
conservative streak
>himself, didn't he?
Wasn't 'Colonel Sun' published in '68? The same year that
Amis published an article called "Why Lucky Jim turned
right", basically justifying his (success-induced)
abandonment of liberal principles on the grounds that it was
society, rather than himself, that had changed. Always rather
despised him for that. I never had any problem with fellow
"angry young man" John Braine turning right...
^_^ Staffar Moberg
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