Download or read book Froth on the Daydream written by Boris Vian and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book If I Say If written by Alistair Rolls and published by University of Adelaide Press. This book was released on 2014-06-23 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boris Vian is a rare phenomenon. Nothing short of a national treasure in France, he is hardly known overseas. In his lifetime, he divided literary opinion with masterpieces that failed to sell and best sellers that caused outrage, trials and even deaths, including his own. As an impresario, he became the figurehead of the jazz scene that marked the French left bank at the end of the Second World War and was responsible for bringing Duke Ellington and Miles Davis to France. As a musician, he played his trumpet against the advice of cardiologists, sang pacifist songs before audiences of outraged patriots and, in passing, created French rock ‘n’ roll. Posthumously, he became known for his theatre, film scripts and poetry as well as for his novels. And in May ’68 he became a revolutionary icon.

Download or read book I Spit on Your Graves written by Boris Vian and published by TamTam Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. "In the tradition of Karl May and Franz Kafka, Boris Vian imagines an American even more amazing that the land he has never visited. "I Spit on Your Graves" is the first novel to put the quotation marks around the "hardboiled" thriller -- a vivid and startling performance" (J. Hoberman). The book is Boris Vian's (1920-1959) sex-and-violence-filled homage to American noir. Originally published in France as J'rai Cracher Sur Vos Tombes -- after allegedly being censored in the U.S. and "translated" into French -- the novel was no best seller, establishing Vian as one of the most famous writers of the mid-twentieth century.

Download or read book L cume des jours written by Boris Vian and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En fantastisk kærlighedsroman i et sælsomt eventyrmiljø, hvor det uventede ikke kan overraske og hvor livet nødvendigvis må få et tragisk forløb

Download or read book Boris Vian L cume des jours written by Boris Vian and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Heartsnatcher written by Boris Vian and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boris Vian s early death robbed French literature of a novelist who was coherent while still modern. Heartsnatcher is an esoteric, surrealistic comedy about guilt, set in a deceptively familiar, almost ordinary locale. New Statesman

Download or read book Mood Indigo written by Boris Vian and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a story in which a husband must try to keep his ill wife alive by constantly surrounding her with fresh flowers.

Download or read book Foam of the Daze written by Boris Vian and published by TamTam Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. Translated from the French by Brian Harper. "FOAM OF THE DAZE is a novel like no other, a sexy, innocent, smart and sweet cartoon of a world which then begins, little by little, to bleed real blood until, in the end, the blood turns out to be our own. I read it nearly thirty years ago in its previous incarnation as Mood Indigo and I loved it then; it's still one of my favorite books in the whole world"--Jim Krusoe. "A kind of jazzy, cheerful, sexy, sci-fi mid-20th century Huysmans. Check it out. There is just no place like France"--Richard Hell.

Download or read book The Manual of Saint Germain des Pr s written by Boris Vian and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rizzoli is pleased to present the first English-language translation of Manual of St-Germain-des-Pres by beloved French author Boris Vian. Vian's book, a guided tour of the left bank cafes, galleries, underground jazz clubs, theaters, and apartment salons captures the transformative culture of the existentialist and post-surrealistic circles.

Download or read book The Fiction of Relationship written by Arnold Weinstein and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A clear and straightforward discussion of the ways in which literatures and their comparative study must depend upon the problematics of interpersonal and other relations. . . . This study will prove as useful as it is wide-ranging, and indeed, comparative in the good sense."--Mary Ann Caws, Graduate School, City University of New York "Here is a comparatist working at the peak of his powers. . . . Weinstein moves easily from Goethe and Flaubert to Kafka or Joyce or Boris Vian. Locating fictions of relationship `at the heart of both literary criticism and human affairs' and acknowledging his own `distinctly humanistic' concerns, Weinstein writes in an urgent tone and eloquent voice, inflecting the theme of `relationship' in every way: in its surrender to the erotic, its frenzied drive for control of the Other, in its ability to confer identity or eclipse difference. . . . When he couples texts (e.g., William Burrough's Naked Lunch and C. de Laclos's Les liaisons dangereuses), he takes risks that bear brilliant fruit. Exploring famous texts and relatively unknown ones, Weinstein infuses the traditional study of fiction with new energy."--Choice Originally published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Download or read book Boris Vian L Ecume des jours written by Boris Vian and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book L cume des jours de Boris Vian Fiche de lecture written by Matthieu Durel and published by Primento. This book was released on 2014-12-10 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cette fiche de lecture sur L'écume des jours de Boris Vian propose une analyse complète : • un résumé de l'oeuvre • une présentation des personnages • une analyse des axes de lecture À propos de FichesDeLecture.com : FichesdeLecture.com propose plus 2500 analyses complètes de livres sur toute la littérature classique et contemporaine : des résumés, des analyses de livres, des questionnaires et des commentaires composés, etc. Nos analyses sont plébiscitées par les lycéens et les enseignants. Toutes nos analyses sont téléchargeables directement en ligne. FichesdeLecture est partenaire du Ministère de l'Education. Plus d'informations sur www.fichesdelecture.com

Download or read book L cume des jours de Boris Vian Analyse approfondie written by Tina Van Roeyen and published by Profil littéraire. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cet ouvrage fournit une analyse approfondie de L'Écume des jours de Boris Vian avec toutes les clés pour analyse l'œuvre. L'Écume des jours est un roman onirique qui ne cesse de fasciner et qui fait désormais partie des classiques de la littérature française ! Chef d'œuvre incontournable de Boris Vian, L'Écume des jours plonge le lecteur dans un univers onirique qui, au fil des pages, s'assombrit et vire au cauchemar. Alors que Chloé vient tout juste de sortir de l'église au bras de Colin, un nénuphar se développe sur ses poumons, une maladie qui se révélera incurable et qui engloutira peu à peu le monde coloré imaginé par l'auteur. Après une courte présentation de l'auteur et du roman analysé, Tina Van Roeyen nous raconte les vies de Boris Vian, car, avec lui, c'est bien le pluriel qui s'impose tant les chemins qu'il a empruntés sont divers et variés. L'Écume des jours est ensuite résumée, puis mise en contexte. Car si l'univers dans lequel nous sommes plongés dès les premières lignes du roman nous paraît étrange, il n'en reste pas moins une réponse donnée par l'auteur au contexte de l'après-guerre dans lequel l'être humain semble avoir perdu ses repères. Vient ensuite une étude des personnages dans laquelle nous découvrons qu'ils sont interchangeables tant ils se ressemblent. Ce sont enfin les thématiques principales qui sont étudiées. Toutes peuvent être classées dans deux grandes catégories : le Bien et le Mal, car ce sont bien ces deux conceptions qui s'opposent dans le roman. Enfin, pour terminer, l'auteure s'intéresse encore au style de l'auteur et à ses innombrables jeux de mot, ainsi qu'à la réception de cette œuvre qui est aujourd'hui devenue un grand classique de la littérature française. Découvrez une présentation et une analyse complète des éléments clés du célèbre roman de Boris Vian, suivies d'un résumé, d'une mise en contexte et du récit de la vie, ou des vies, de l'auteur. Profil Littéraire propose des analyses approfondies faisant le tour complet des plus grandes œuvres de la littérature. Notre objectif est de permettre à nos lecteurs d'aller plus loin dans leur expérience de lecture et leur offrir ainsi un nouveau regard sur l'oeuvre concernée. Nos "profils littéraires" sont conçus par des professeurs triés sur le volet et révisés par un comité éditorial constitué de professionnels de la littérature.

Download or read book Autumn in Peking written by Boris Vian and published by Tamtam Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. Translated from the French by Paul Knobloch. Originally published in 1947. "In the Exopotamian desert, where hepatrols blossom and children collect little animals called sandpeepers, the sun shines in an unusual way: it produces eerie black zones whose mysteries remain unexplained. Above all, Vian's pecurilar way with language proves that, indeed, life in the desert is equal to none. Since unusual language is bound to produce unusual fiction, it follows that the story does not take place in the fall, nor is it set in China" - from the Foreword by Marc Lapprand. The fourth novel by Vian, who was a contemporary of Sartre and Beauvoir. His innovative style, cutting-edge during his lifetime, but only successful in the sixties, made him an icon of the May 1968 student movement.

Download or read book Blues for a Black Cat and Other Stories written by Boris Vian and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-08-18 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Blues for a Black Cat] brings back the nimble Vian in a collection of his short fiction, initially published as Les Fourmis in 1949. The work has the unmistakable flavor of the time and place, Claude Abadie's jazz band, the coded and absurdist messages of rebellion, the wistful fables, verbal riffs and goofy anarchic encounters; the mise-en-scene includes an expiring jazzman who sells his sweat, a cat with a British accent and a piano that mixes a cocktail when "Mood Indigo" is played."--Boston Globe

Download or read book The Dead All Have the Same Skin written by Boris Vian and published by Tamtam Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vian's second noir novel under the Vernon Sullivan pseudonym is a brutal tale of racism in postwar New York City, as protagonist Daniel Parker is blackmailed by a long lost brother. Also included is the short story "Dogs, Desire and Death," and Vian's account of the controversies surrounding his previous novel I Spit on your Graves.

Download or read book Red Grass written by Boris Vian and published by Tamtam Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A narrative about an engineer, Wolf, who invents a bizarre machine that allows him to revisit his past and erase inhibiting memories.