James Bond novel “shouldn’t be amended,” says  biographer Ian Fleming

• The decision to modify James Bond novels’ now-culturally insensitive passages.
• Prompted criticism from Ian Fleming biographer Andrew Lycett.
• The British biographer commented on Bond’s choice to rebrand his writings.

The British biographer commented on Bond‘s choice to rebrand his writings in an interview with The Telegraph, saying, “It is never a good look to rewrite what an author initially wrote. It smells of censorship, and that rarely accomplishes much. Of course, some of the language used in the Bond novels today seems out of date.

According to rumours, references to race have been removed from the new edition of the 007 books, including the ethnicity of the bartender in Thunderball and information about a striptease in Live and Let Die. “But I firmly believe that what a writer commits to paper is sacred and should not be changed. Whether it is by Shakespeare, Dickens, or Ian Fleming, it serves as proof of that writer’s and society’s attitudes at a specific period “Added he.

Lycett added that Fleming’s Bond could not be changed to fit the politically correct story. “Fleming constructed a sexist, often sadistic, killer, with archaic attitudes to gays and to a spectrum of individuals of different ethnicities,” he told the daily.

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