Avakoum Zahov versus 07
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| Author | Andrei Gulyashki |
|---|---|
| Original title | Срещу 07 |
| Language | Bulgarian |
Publication date | 1966 |
Published in English | 1967 |
Avakoum Zakhov vs. 07 (Bulgarian: Срещу 07) is an espionage novel by the Bulgarian author Andrei Gulyashki first published in 1966 and translated into English in 1967 (Sydney, Australia: Scripts. Paperback. 1967).
Western press compared Gulyashki's fictional detective Avakoum Zakhov with James Bond. There is a story that when Gulyashki wrote the book about a "match" of Zakhov vs. Bond and Western film directors, when learned about this, offered to film it. However an unexpected obstacle arose against the book from the Communist Party-dominated Bulgarian Writers' Union, who accused Gulyashki in the treason of the Socialist Realism, and the book was not printed. However Gulyashki outwits the bureaucrats and prints the novel in a serialized form in Narodna Mladezh [National Youth] newspaper, under a cryptic title, with one zero removed: Срещу 07 [Versus 07] (later translated as Avakoum Zahov versus 07) and where the name Bond is never mentioned.[1] The title allegedly lost a zero due to the objections of Ian Fleming's publisher, Glidrose Productions.[2][3]
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