First edition Glidrose Productions Ltd, 1953
Italian version: First Edition: Garzanti 1965 - Latest edition: Bloomsbury Publishing Editor, 2004
" At three in the morning, the smell of the casino, the smoke and sweat loss nausea. At that time, the inner wear typical of gambling - mixture of greed, fear and nervous tension - becomes intolerable. The senses are awakened and writhe in disgust.
All'improviso James Bond became aware of being tired. "
These few lines mark the fulminant onset of a new literary hero. The light par excellence is presented by Fleming in his first novel in the series as a man of the world, who loves the good life, who like women (of whom, however, warning), even if it is ready to fall in love. Gambling is a His passion, as are cigarettes, drinks and dinner in an elegant French restaurant. Physically Bond is portrayed as a man about 35 years, high-haired blacks, a slight scar on right cheek, a vague resemblance to the musician and singer Hoagy Carmichael.
" The idea was to put an end to my celibacy made me rather nervous. To download the tension that did not give me peace, I threw down a novel ..." With his usual irony commented Fleming the birth of his career as a novelist. Written in January 1952, during a summer vacation at his residence in Jamaica Goldeneye, Casino Royale is the archetype of the spy novels. The book has a very simple narrative structure, and is divided into the classical Aristotelian three acts. The first part is presented the main character and his mission . James Bond is in the imaginary town of Royale Les Eaux, on the Riviera. He was sent from there by his superior intelligence English, M., (the original is probably referring to the nickname by which Fleming called his mom) to defeat Le Chiffre at the baccarat table, the Soviet bridgehead in France , treasurer of the union and paying the Communist side of the Alps. We are in a cold war, as the story unfolds in the mid- 50. Le Chiffre is a stateless person (hence the name he chose a "figure", is considered so because of the number on your passport), who became rich by exploiting prostitution with a series of brothels located throughout France. However, the new law prohibits brothels and shady wheeler-is in debt of more than CHF 50 million against the Soviet secret service. The latter have provided the large sum of money to finance the union. To avoid the revenge of Smersh (of nearly the Smyert Shpionam "death to spies") Le Chiffre decides the fate groped at the table, hoping to recover gambling finances squandered. The idea of \u200b\u200b
M. is sent his best agent with a license to kill double zero in Riviera cards to challenge the fraudster. If the plan were to be successful gangsters in the pay of the KGB would find itself penniless and with one foot in the grave. 1) Bond
accepts the challenge and went to help him find where Royale René Mathis, his colleagues in France, Felix Leiter, CIA, and Vesper Lynd, a charming colleague who will watch your back. Just get
Bond escapes an assassination attempt against him by two Bulgarians, then, first to challenge Le Chiffre in the game, check out the casino tables to study. Here Fleming takes this opportunity to express some of the key ideas of his character in terms of women and gambling. "... luck, with all its quirks, was not feared but loved. Bond saw her as a woman who had to flirt with sweetness or take with brutality; arruffianarsela or never try to run after her. " The
007 Vesper evening dinner invitation to the courts in his own way, with a mixture of sophistication and sensuality, even if his fixed idea is to face Le Chiffre.
The second part of the novel opens with chapters 10, 11, 12 and 13, entirely devoted to the challenge to the baccarat of the two protagonists. They are the most exciting part of the book to the dry style with which the author describes a world he knows well, being a frequent visitor to the casino at Le Touquet, near Deauville. The antagonist of Bond is described as cunning and ruthless, looking left. It is said that Fleming was inspired for this character to the famous Satanist Alistair McCrowley, which during the Second World War he offered to mediate the prisoner with Rudolph Hess, with whom he shared a passion for the occult (including the McCrowley appears also on the cover of the Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band).
After an initial phase of the game in which Bond earns a substantial amount in a second it follows that his nemesis is to prevail, leaving no finances. Bond was defeated, but spoke to him manforte Leiter, who offers him 32 million in an envelope francs to continue the game. In the face of unscrupulous revitalization of the entire bench wobbles but Le Chiffre is forced to play the bet. The final showdown sees Bond take precedence, to the loss of all the assets of Le Chiffre.
Back Room Bond hides a check for 40 million francs and went to dinner with Vesper. She is restless and leave the dinner because Mathis call for a report of the evening. It's actually a trap, which stretched from Le Chiffre kidnaps the girl. 007 understands everything, but when he leaves the local machine sees the villain away. On board his Bentley Bond begins a chase on the winding roads of the Riviera but flips his car due to a trap set by men Le Chiffre with a carpet of nails. Captured, Bond is taken to an uninhabited house in the heart of rural France. Stripped and tortured by Le Chiffre sadism who wants to know where he hid the money. Bond resists the pain and does not speak but when an unexpected event is about to give his aid. An agent of the KGB justice with a gunshot to the head Le Chiffre and then goes away, not before they had cut with a knife in the hand of the letters SH Bond, or Shpionam . The execution of Le Chiffre is described by Fleming with brutal realism: "There was a puff
The third part begins with Chapter 19 and has Bond in a hospital bed. The agent was recovered from Mathis, who saved the girl, luckily unhurt. Bond, however, is was shaken in body and soul. In a conversation with Mathis expressed his doubts about the lawfulness of his actions. disincato A bitter emerges from his words is so blurred the difference between good and evil that is no longer sure of its actions. Moreover, the wounds suffered in the most intimate parts are severe, and our concern that may have irreversible repercussions on his manhood. It 'also why at first refused all requests to Vesper. The girl in fact it attracts more than he is willing to admit. But in the end 007 and meets the woman capitulates. Attracted to her, she agrees to spend his rehabilitation in a small hotel on the coast. The two fell madly in love one another and Bond seriously consider marriage. But a dark shadow threatens their relationship. Vesper believes to be followed by a mysterious man in black with a monocle. Bond does not want to believe her at first but the lies of the girl suspicious until the case impensable: Vesper commits suicide by swallowing a bottle of Nembutal. A Bond, desperate for the loss, she left a letter in which he claims to be a spy for the Russians. He accepted the double play because the Soviets blackmails her to kill her lover, a Polish pilot captured during the war and a prisoner of SMERSH. The girl has committed suicide unable to bear the idea of \u200b\u200brevealing to Bond, which had fallen in love, the truth. E 'this is the part of the twilight book in which Fleming reveals a romantic aspect to Bond, which contrasts with the idea that we had made of him reading the book. Behind that surface rough men lies at the bottom of a sentimentalist. And none of the players believe him when, calling his liaison officer in London he said: "Talk 007. From a public phone. Emergency. Transmit now: 3030 was a double agent for Ivan. "
" Yes, damn it: I said ' was'. It died whore. "
Casino Royale is a great thriller that reinvents the genre with a shot of the old classic Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and Edgar Wallace. Until that moment, in fact, English literature had never brought anything new in the spy genre. With the exception of John Buchan's Richard Hannay, an engineer hired by the Secret Service from time to time, and some history of Eric Ambler, James Bond is imposed immediately as a new character. The power-Fleming, cruel but with a smile, is closer to the character of Mike Hammer, Mickey Spillane that invented by the Philip Marlowe by Raymond Chandler (who also liked Fleming's novels). A Spillane Casino Royale has at least two elements. The first is a girl, Vesper, Bond falls in love with but then prove to be an enemy spy. In a novel by Spillane was the Hammer to kill her, while Fleming, the woman committed suicide. Bond has in common with Hammer also the transformation of love into hatred: "And 'died whore", so concludes the book, and so its 007 liquid feeling of affection towards Vesper.
Second Bond is haunted by an image: that of a Japanese expert in codes that he has removed from a cooling tower in front. Even Mike Hammer is constantly haunted by the memory of a Japanese soldier killed in war. An analogy that, as Eco points out in his essay "The case Bond" is not accidental. In both figures the memory of the death of the Japanese is the basis of their neurosis Fleiming but decided to resolve the issue of bonds due to non-therapeutic, thus excluding psychological aspects in the narrative development of the subsequent novels.
Fleming also paid tribute to George Simenon, his favorite author. Many of the Bond adventures are set in France and are affected by the atmosphere typically French Simenon instilled in the pages dedicated to his Maigret. But what is most striking is the obsessive attention to detail that will be taken up by Terence Young in the first adventure film, Dr. No . Fleming's attention to objects of everyday life, liquor, perfume, cigarettes, cars, all oriented to the extreme luxury, providing the reader with information on which fantasies of glamorous dream to become one, leaving the grayness of everyday life instead of bills made by pay, a boring job and a wife aged prematurely. And women: beautiful, beautiful, mysterious, depraved. Bond often treats them with contempt, but other times it is fascinating, as in the case of Vesper. Fleming builds a literary universe from scratch, intended to strike the imagination of readers around the world. The seeds of the myth were sown.
1) The idea of \u200b\u200b Casino Royale comes from a life experience of that Fleming, like on the other hand, many of the events recounted in his books. In 1941 the author, at the time secret agent, tried to pluck the Casino Estoril in Portugal, some members of the German Intelligence challenging at chemin de fer. Yet Fleming also lost everything and had to borrow money from his boss. Heroic, then, his mission had nothing but the version on the pages of the event has transformed a very different resolution. Since its inception, therefore, it foreshadows what John Pearson in his study "The Life of Ian Fleming defines the autobiography of a dream. Bond is Fleming's fictional alter ego, the exasperation of his vices and virtues, sublimated by a hyper-realistic heroism.
says Ian Fleming was born as James Bond
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