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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.
Boris Vian, né le 10 mars 1920 à Ville-d'Avray (Seine-et-Oise) et mort le 23 juin 1959 à Paris 7 e [1], est un écrivain, poète, parolier, chanteur, critique musical, musicien de jazz (trompettiste) et directeur artistique français.
Aug 12, 2014 · Vian was born, in 1920, to a middle-class family in Ville d’Avray, a suburb of Paris. He was a sickly child and predicted that he’d die by his fortieth birthday; as it...
Froth On The Daydream ( French: L'Écume Des Jours, lit. "The Froth Of Days") is a 1947 surrealist novel by French author Boris Vian. Although told as a linear narrative, the novel employs surrealism and contains multiple plot lines, including the love stories of two couples, talking mice, and a man who ages years in a week.
Sep 5, 2014 · Introducing Boris Vian to an Anglo-Saxon audience presents something of a challenge, principally because he is so well known in his native France that it is difficult to imagine how he could have escaped the attention of the rest of the world.
Boris Vian has 295 books on Goodreads with 152177 ratings. Boris Vian’s most popular book is L'Écume des jours.
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 ...
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