![]() ![]() James Bond foils Goldfinger, delesbianizes Pussy Galore, and regards his impossible success as a mere job of work to be laconically approved, with reservations, by M, the head of his department.Īll this is, in some measure, a great joke, but Fleming’s passion for plausibility, his own naval intelligence background, and a kind of sincere Manicheism, allied to journalistic efficiency in the management of his récit, make his work rather impressive.Ĭritics of the book point to Fleming’s casual racism towards Goldfinger’s Korean heavy Oddjob – “Koreans are rather lower than apes in the mammalian hierarchy.” Villains are typically foreign (never English) a convention as old as literature itself, but in this case a touch of xenophobia creeps in. In his “99 Novels: The best in English Since 1939” Anthony Burgess chose Goldfinger as one of the 99. His love of golf takes up an entire 3 chapters, but much like the bridge game in Moonraker, it’s a brilliant piece of writing avid golfer or a good walk ruined. ![]() Fleming’s tendency to overindulge himself with plot diversions is at the fore – pun intended. ![]() It stands as one of the longest in the series and has one of the most implausible plots. Bond, I expect you to die.”īut what about the book as a whole in the collective memory? The name Goldfinger is probably the most synonymous title in the Bond canon with the most famous Bond girl, Bond villain, Bond film and Bond line: “No Mr. ![]()
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