Download or read book Boris Vian la lettre et la note written by Nicole Bertolt and published by Textuel. This book was released on 2008 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ce livre restitue, documents à l'appui bien souvent inédits, l'ambiance enfiévrée des clubs où les " rats de cave " allaient se déhancher sur les sets de Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong ou Dizzy Gillespie. A partir de documents d'époque, de manuscrits, d'archives personnelles, les différents champs de création de B. Vian sont abordés : littérature, musique, dont 484 chansons composées par l'écrivain, etc.
Download or read book From Dreams to Despair written by J K L Scott and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-12-18 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of the novels of Boris Vian, the artist, writer, jazz musician and occasional pornographer. Primarily known for his classic novel of doomed young love, L'Ecume des jours, and the pseudonymously-written erotic roman noir J'irai cracher sur vos tombes, his work displays a bewildering variety of styles, genres and narrative voices. The purpose of this book is to show that Vian's novels in fact display an overall thematic coherence, dramatizing the growth of the individual from childhood to adolescent idealism and ultimate adult disillusion. Vian is a highly popular author in France: this book seeks to prove that he is also a serious literary artist. The wordplay, pastiche and parody which fill his texts should not blind the reader to the deeper themes and issues which lie behind them, just as the protean character of his style should not be allowed to conceal the single integrated narrative which runs throughout his novels.
Download or read book Boris Vian written by Philippe Boggio and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boris Vian, c'est une légende. La " trompinette " dans les caves de Saint-Germain des Prés, le Déserteur, le poète de l'Ecume des jours, le pornographe de J'irai cracher sur vos tombes, le pataphysicien et l'ingénieur. Visage émacié, silhouette tout en os, il est devenu un emblème qui, entre Gréco et Sartre, résume une époque, une nostalgie. Philippe Boggio a voulu voir ce qu'il y avait derrière le masque d'éternel jeune homme triste. Une vie pleine de drames et de secrets, pas mal de bruit et de douleur. Son enquête commence par l'enfance heureuse à Ville-d'Avray, avant la guerre. Les soirées zazou. La mort du père, assassiné. L'espoir d'une vraie carrière littéraire, entre Gallimard et Les Temps modernes. Les nuits du Tabou. Le jazz. Une production frénétique, des projets, des chansons, des pièces, des romans. Le scandale de J'irai cracher. Une vie de galère aussi et la maladie qui le ronge. Les déboires. Les amours perdues et retrouvées. La fin marquée par l'ironie du sort, dans une salle de cinéma, lors de la projection de l'adaptation de J'irai cracher... Boggio a interrogé les témoins de la vie de Vian. Claude Luter, Henri Salvador, Jacques Canetti, Michèle, sa première femme, Ursula, la seconde, tant d'autres. Une série de mondes se rejoignent, celui des lettres, celui du jazz et de la chanson, celui du journalisme et du cinéma. Ca swingue et ça commence même, juste avant sa mort, à avoir un air de rock'n'roll.
Download or read book Le Jazz written by Matthew F. Jordan and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Le Jazz, Matthew F. Jordan deftly blends textual analysis, critical theory, and cultural history in a wide-ranging and highly readable account of how jazz progressed from a foreign cultural innovation met with resistance by French traditionalists to a naturalized component of the country's identity. Jordan draws on sources including ephemeral critical writing in the press and twentieth-century French literature to trace the country's reception of jazz, from the Cakewalk dance craze and the music's significance as a harbinger of cultural recovery after World War II to its place within French ethnography and cultural hybridity. Countering the histories of jazz's celebratory reception in France, Jordan delves in to the reluctance of many French citizens to accept jazz with the same enthusiasm as the liberal humanists and cosmopolitan crowds of the 1930s. Jordan argues that some listeners and critics perceived jazz as a threat to traditional French culture, and only as France modernized its identity did jazz become compatible with notions of Frenchness. Le Jazz speaks to the power of enlivened debate about popular culture, art, and expression as the means for constructing a vibrant cultural identity, revealing crucial keys to understanding how the French have come to see themselves in the postwar world.
Download or read book Cent sonnets written by Boris Vian and published by Le Livre de Poche. This book was released on 2012-08-30 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sans doute composés entre 1939 et 1943, ces poèmes sont la première œuvre de Boris Vian. Il devait beaucoup plus tard les reprendre, corrigeant ou supprimant certaines pièces, preuve de l’importance qu’il leur attachait. Impertinence, humour, sens de la dérision et du pastiche: tels sont les traits les plus caractéristiques de ce poète de vingt ans. Et aussi un goût immodéré pour la rime, le calembour, le jeu verbal et prosodique – où se profile déjà le futur auteur de chansons. Par-delà les tristesses et les émotions intérieures d’un jeune écrivain décidément surdoué, on perçoit en bien des pages les hardiesses et les amusements d’un Boris Vian résolument décidé à vivre.
Download or read book Je Voudrais Pas Crever written by Boris Vian and published by LGF/Le Livre de Poche. This book was released on 1997 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Des poèmes, écrits en 1951 et 1952, où Boris Vian parle sur un mode intime et douloureux, proche de la confession, de son angoisse de la mort, de ses doutes sur la vie et sur lui-même. Le recueil est suivi de quatre lettres au Collège de Pataphysique, où il joue sur les mots et les proverbes et se livre à un exercice de style où l'humour rivalise avec l'absurde.
Download or read book Django written by Michael Dregni and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-11-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Django Reinhardt was arguably the greatest guitarist who ever lived, an important influence on Les Paul, Charlie Christian, B.B. King, Jerry Garcia, Chet Atkins, and many others. Yet there is no major biography of Reinhardt. Now, in Django, Michael Dregni offers a definitive portrait of this great guitarist. Handsome, charismatic, childlike, and unpredictable, Reinhardt was a character out of a picaresque novel. Born in a gypsy caravan at a crossroads in Belgium, he was almost killed in a freak fire that burned half of his body and left his left hand twisted into a claw. But with this maimed left hand flying over the frets and his right hand plucking at dizzying speed, Django became Europe's most famous jazz musician, commanding exorbitant fees--and spending the money as fast as he made it. Dregni not only chronicles this remarkably colorful life--including a fascinating account of gypsy culture--but he also sheds much light on Django's musicianship. He examines his long musical partnership with violinist Stéphane Grappelli--the one suave and smooth, the other sharper and more dissonant--and he traces the evolution of their novel string jazz ensemble, Quintette du Hot Club de France. Indeed, the author spotlights Django's amazing musical diversity, describing his swing-styled Nouveau Quintette, his big band Django's Music, and his later bebop ensemble, as well as his many compositions, including symphonic pieces influenced by Ravel and Debussy and his unfinished organ mass inspired by Bach. And along the way, the author offers vivid snapshots of the jazz scene in Paris--colorful portraits of Josephine Baker, Bricktop, Louis Armstrong, Coleman Hawkins, and countless others--and of Django's vagabond wanderings around France, Europe, and the United States, where he toured with Duke Ellington. Capturing the extraordinary life and times of one of the great musicians of the twentieth century, Django is a must-read portrait of a true original.
Download or read book Queneau s Fiction written by Christopher Shorley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985-09-05 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A general study of Queneau in English, originally published in 1985, which offers a straightforward introduction to his novels and short stories.
Download or read book Jazz in Paris written by Boris Vian and published by Fayard/Pauvert. This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En 1948, Boris Vian est choisi par une radio de New York pour présenter aux auditeurs " amerlauds " le jazz tel qu'il se crée à Paris depuis les années trente. Pendant près de deux ans, il prend plaisir à enchaîner les disques des jazzmen français ou des groupes franco-américains enregistrés en France. Il le fait dans un anglais bien à lui, avec son élan habituel _ variations comiques et stylistiques, jeux de mots bilingues, fantaisie et humour _, mais aussi avec le sérieux du connaisseur pédagogue. Voici donc en édition bilingue un (ultime?) complément indispensable aux quelque 1 200 pages de chroniques de jazz déjà publiées du vice-président du Hot Club de Paris. Il se révèle toujours, même dans des textes d'une forme convenue, un instructeur aimable et un écrivain brillamment original que chaque titre de jazz peut faire glisser vers les régions fécondes de l'imaginaire. Gilbert Pestureau
Download or read book First International Anthology on Paradoxism essays notes written by Jean-Michel Levenard and published by Infinite Study. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Communities written by and published by . This book was released on 1996-01-03 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Boris Vian written by Anne Mary and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: De son vivant, Boris Vian (1920-1959) est davantage connu pour ses talents d'amateur de jazz et d'animateur de soirées à Saint-Germain-des-Prés, et pour sa réputation d'auteur sulfureux, que pour son œuvre littéraire. Celle-ci est découverte de façon posthume grâce à quelques éditeurs passionnés, fascinés par cet homme toujours jeune, créateur d'une langue originale et d'un univers foisonnant. Diplômé de l'École centrale, Boris Vian n'exerce son métier d'ingénieur que quelques années et préfère se consacrer à l'écriture. Sous le pseudonyme de Vernon Sullivan, il rédige J'irai cracher sur vos tombes, dans le style des romans noirs américains, en se faisant passer pour le traducteur. Bien que l'ouvrage, jugé scandaleux, soit censuré, trois autres titres de Vernon Sullivan voient le jour jusqu'en 1950. L'image de l'écrivain en pâtit : après L'Écume des jours, les romans signés de son véritable nom passent inaperçus. En 1953, devant l'échec de L'Arrache-cœur, il se détourne de l'écriture romanesque au profit de la chanson, en tant que parolier, chanteur et directeur artistique chez Philips. Il crée également pour le théâtre et le cabaret. Ses chansons, reprises encore de nos jours, ont marqué et fasciné nombre d'auteurs-compositeurs.
Download or read book French Literature Author and title listing written by Harvard University. Library and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jean Paul Sartre A Bibliography of International Criticism written by Robert Wilcocks and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 1975 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A large, comprehensive compilation of journalism and international criticism of the works and activities of Jean-Paul Sartre. The work covers Sartre's stormy career from 1937 to 1975, containing nearly 700,000 entries and over 3,200 authors.
Download or read book Culture and Content in French written by Aurélie Chevant-Aksoy and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2022-03-16 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instructors in today’s language classrooms face the challenge of preparing globally competent and socially responsible students with transcultural aptitude. As classroom content shifts toward communication, collaboration, and problem solving across cultural, racial, and linguistic boundaries, the teaching of culture is an integral part of foreign language education. This volume offers nontraditional approaches to teaching culture in a complex time when the internet and social networks have blurred geographical, social, and political borders.The authors offer practical advice about teaching culture with kinesthetics, music, improvisation, and communication technologies for different competency levels.The chapters also explore multi-literacies, project-based learning, and discussions on teaching culture through literature, media, and film.The appendices share examples of course syllabi, specific course activities, and extracurricular projects that explore culinary practices, performing arts, pop culture, geolocation, digital literacy, journalism, and civic literacy.
Download or read book The Lyric Encyclopedia of Raymond Queneau written by Jane Alison Hale and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Boris Vian written by Claire Julliard and published by Editions Gallimard. This book was released on 2007 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incarnant la jeunesse, l'innovation, l'audace, l'auteur de L'écume des jours mêle questions existentielles et plaisanteries, rejet du monde du travail et réflexion douloureuse sur l'amour. Mal compris de son temps, en avance sur ses contemporains, il est longtemps ignoré. Inexplorée de son vivant, son oeuvre symbolise dix ans après sa mort, le souffle libertaire de la génération de mai 1968.
