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Mar 23, 1999 · Boris Vian [Polygram] by Boris Vian released in 1999. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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Boris Vian (1920-1959), little-known (to Americans) and a late-bloomer even in France, was an irrepressible, whirl-wind presence in the post-WWII scene in Paris. Often described as a polymath, he wrote poems, hundreds of songs, short stories, 12 novels, screen plays, music, opera librettos, music criticism, and was an actor, translator and ...
Boris Vian ( French: [bɔʁis vjɑ̃]; 10 March 1920 – 23 June 1959) was a French polymath who is primarily remembered for his novels. Those published under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan were bizarre parodies of criminal fiction, highly controversial at the time of their release due to their unconventional outlook.
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Focusing on music-related references in Boris Vian's first published novel, this article will discuss different layers of meaning and a variety of techniques that can be discerned in Vian's punning and wordplay.
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see the Pléiade edition of Vian’s complete prose fiction: Boris Vian, Œuvres romanesques complètes (Paris: Gallimard, 2 vols, 2010), vol. II, pp. 1312-1313. 2 These collections were both edited by the famous Vian scholar Noël Arnaud and first published in French by Parisian publisher Christian Bourgois under the following titles: Le