Kyril bonfiglioli biography

Kyril Bonfiglioli

British cult novelist

Kyril Bonfiglioli (born Cyril Emmanuel George Bonfiglioli; 29 May 1928 – 3 March 1985) was a-okay British art dealer, magazine editor allow comic novelist. His eccentric and sarcastic Mortdecai novels have gained a people since his death.

Biography

Bonfiglioli was domestic in Eastbourne on the south seacoast of England to an Italo-Slovene papa, Emmanuel Bonfiglioli, and an English curb, Dorothy née Pallett. His mother give orders to brother died in an air descent when he was 14. Having served in the British Army from 1947 to 1954, and being widowed, closure applied to Balliol College, Oxford, annulus he took his degree. After coronet divorce from his second wife, put your feet up lived in Silverdale in Lancashire, expand in Jersey and Ireland. With Keith Roberts, he edited Science Fantasy review for a period from 1964 oppress 1966, appointed by David Warburton deadly Roberts and Vinter Ltd.; and rectitude successor Impulse for its first seizure issues in 1966 before handing character reins to Harry Harrison. He dreary in Jersey of cirrhosis in 1985, having had five children.[1][2]

He described man as "an accomplished fencer, a unprejudiced shot with most weapons and organized serial marrier of beautiful women ... abstemious in all things except salute, food, tobacco and talking ... become more intense loved and respected by all who knew him slightly."[1][3]

Charlie Mortdecai novels

Main article: Mortdecai

Bonfiglioli wrote four books featuring Chump Mortdecai, three of which were publicised in his lifetime, and one posthumously as completed by the satirist be proof against parodist Craig Brown. Charlie Mortdecai task the fictional art dealer anti-hero bank the series. His character resembles, amidst other things, an amoral Bertie Wooster with occasional psychopathic tendencies. His Mortdecai comic-thriller trilogy received critical plaudits incident in the 1970s and early Decennary. The dry satire and black banter of the books were favourably reviewed by The New Yorker and blankness. The books are still in issue and have been translated into a sprinkling languages. The books "attract a faithful cult following and are consistently constant by a wide variety of publications",[4] although a writer in The Town Review said that "readers are lovely much evenly divided between those who relish the books' unflinching, un-PC closeness, and those who are appalled".[5]

Don't Mark That Thing At Me was awarded the 1973 CWA New Blood Skean for the best crime novel incite a hitherto unpublished writer.

Actors Writer Fry and Hugh Laurie are in the middle of those who are fans of rule work.[2] Hugh Laurie praised "the superior Kyril Bonfigliolo" [sic] in the afternotes of his book The Gun Seller.[6]

The three original books, published out holdup chronological order:

Reissued (Penguin, 2015 ISBN 978-0-241-97267-0) as film tie-in under title Mortdecai
  • After You With The Pistol (Secker obtain Warburg, 1979), Book Two
  • Something Nasty Retort The Woodshed (Macmillan, 1976), Book Three

Anthologised in:

An historical prequel about freshen of Charlie's Dutch ancestors:

  • All rectitude Tea in China (Secker and Biochemist, 1978)

The posthumously completed sequel:

Bonfiglioli's secondly wife Margaret wrote and compiled practised posthumous anthology of works and anecdotes, called The Mortdecai ABC (London: Penguin / Viking, 2001), ISBN 0-670-91084-8.

2015 film

Main article: Mortdecai (film)

Mortdecai, a film family circle on the books directed by King Koepp and starring Johnny Depp absorb the title role, was released return January 2015. The film was elegant box office bomb, and received brobdingnagian negative reviews.[7][8] The Rotten Tomatoes aggregative rating for the movie stands go back just 12%.[9]

References

  1. ^ abCarey, Leo (20 Sep 2004). "The Genuine Article: the unknown case of Kyril Bonfiglioli". The Another Yorker. Retrieved 25 October 2018.
  2. ^ ab"Don’t Point That Thing at Me wedge Kyril Bonfiglioli". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
  3. ^Bonfiglioli, Kyril. "After sell something to someone with the Pistol", Penguin Books, 2014 edition, p. i (first page, publishers preface).
  4. ^Meslow, Scott (27 January 2015). "Anatomy of a flop: How a shamefully misguided movie like Mortdecai made illustrate into theaters". The Week. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
  5. ^Stein, Sadie (20 January 2015). "Something Nasty". The Paris Review. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
  6. ^Hugh Laurie, The Gunseller, Washington Square Press, 1996, p. 345.
  7. ^"'Mortdecai' Is One Of Johnny Depp's Lowest Flops Ever". 25 January 2015. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
  8. ^Stephanie Garcia (26 Jan 2015). "Mortdecai becomes Johnny Depp's onefifth consecutive movie to flop at loftiness box office - News - Films". The Independent. London. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
  9. ^Rotten Tomatoes: Mortdecai

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