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	Boris Vian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Boris Vian (March 10, 1920 - June 23, 1959) was a French writer, poet, singer, and musician, who also wrote under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan.
		Vian was Raymond Chandler's French translator; he was intimately, if remotely, involved with American pop-culture and its reception in France.
		On the morning of June 23, 1959, Boris Vian was at the Cinema Marbeuf for the screening of the film version of his controversial "Vernon Sullivan" novel, J'irai cracher sur vos tombes (I will Spit On Your Graves).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Boris_Vian (911 words)

	Biography - Boris VIAN
		Boris Vian was born in Ville-d'Avray, a town near Paris, on 10 March 1920.
		Vian was fascinated by the intellectual activities of the Surrealists from an early age and he maintained a healthy interest in the "culture of the absurd" throughout his life.
		Vian's lyrics were set to music by the renowned jazz pianist Jack Diéval and performed by a certain Henri Salvador (in those days a budding young singer and major jazz fan).
	www.rfimusique.com /siteEn/biographie/biographie_6220.asp (3232 words)

	Boris Vian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This was by all accounts an undemanding post, and Vian amused himself with pataphysical conundrums, by composing songs and sketching sub-aqueous plants, and by publishing a chapbook for friends, satirizing his colleagues.
		Vian wrote 10 novels, including popular hardboiled thrillers published under the name, Vian's fictionalized American persona.
		Although this may be the case in every translation, Vian's novels are emphatically franco-francais -- that is, tied irrevocably to the language of their composition.
	www.kernersville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Boris_Vian (883 words)

	Ina Alice Pfitzner, Ph.D. Sprach- und Textkünstlerin Deutsch Englisch Französisch Französische und ...
		Boris Vian (1920-1959) was a prolific novelist, poet, playwright, screenwriter and actor, jazz trumpeter and jazz critic, singer/songwriter, essayist, pataphysician and Prince of the St. Germain-de-Prés.
		Vian’s is a somewhat cynical and ironic vision but also one that does not want to present truths to the reader as is. For Vian art should not know doctrines, it should be independent, serious and political at times and light-hearted and fun at others, or all of them at once.
		Vian’s productivity and creativity, his incessant activity to question convenient ideas, his commitment to almost all forms of art and the fact that he remains an author appreciated by many readers and less by the critics, seems to point to a committed author.
	www.inapfitzner.net /what_is_lit.htm (3442 words)

	Gadfly Online.
		Vian contemptuously turned his back on WWII by playing jazz and participating as animateur de soir...es in a series of wild conceptual "surprise parties" (precursor of the Situationist d...rive?), which were free-for-alls where mundane orthodoxy gave way to puckish-inspired lunacy.
		Vian was also a jazz "zazou." Zazous danced away the heartache despite national wartime dance prohibitions, had no politics—like mods, disco-nauts, zootsuiters or beer punks—and no credo other than devotion to jazz and their "right" to a good life.
		Vian strove to convey delight in language's capacity to present an imaginary world more real and telling than "ordinary life": a strange amalgam of absurdity, play, invention and a renaissance man's impatience, plus a healthy mistrust of science as religion, religion as truth and militarism as normal.
	www.gadflyonline.com /archive/JanFeb01/archive-borisvian.html (2272 words)

	Boris Vian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Vian was dragged into court and admitted authorship.
		Ironically, Vian was to die suddenly while watching a preview of the screen version of which he didn't approve.
		In his 39 years Boris Vian wrote 10 novels, 42 short stories, 7 theatre pieces, 400 songs, 4 poetry collections, 6 opera librettos, 20 translations of short stories and novels, and about 50 articles.
	www.members.tripod.com /~DannyRosenbaum/vian.html (644 words)

	Heartsnatcher by Boris Vian - review
		Vian creates a whole new world here, satirizing the existing world for some of its most obvious faults, and presenting a remarkably open-ended allegory, which makes the reader think, at the same time that s/he often laughs at the absurdities and winces at the truths.
		Boris Vian, born near Paris in 1920, was most well known as a novelist and playwright; yet throughout his life he was also an engineer, poet, songwriter, film actor, scriptwriter, translator, painter, composer, jazz trumpeter, song writer, cabaret singer, and a record company executive.
		Vian died suddenly of a heart attack in 1959 at the age of 39 while watching a preview of the screen version of J'irai cracher sur vos tombes -- of which he didn't approve.
	mostlyfiction.com /world/vian.htm (1329 words)

	Tam Tam Books
		Boris Vian was a jack of all trades - although unfortunately his name was Boris and "Boris of all trades" never took off as a turn of phrase.
		Vian, in a mixture of great humor and unequal amount of disgust, introduces various 'eccentric' characters in this 'desert' adventure, such as Anne and Angel who are best friends; and Rochelle who is in love and sleeps with Anne, while Angel is madly in love with her.
		Vian, decidedly anti-clerical and atheistic, takes aim at the clergy in the form of Littlejohn, a Falstaffian cleric who recites dirty limericks as liturgy and imbibes a great deal of alcohol.
	tamtambooks.com /vian_autumn.html (2027 words)

	Exquisite Corpse - A Journal of Letters and Life
		Boris Vian (1920-1959) was a poet, novelist, playwright, translator, singer, jazz musician, composer and the Prince of the St.-Germain-des-Prés artist quarter in Paris.
		As opposed to Sartre and others, Vian refused to be "engagé" and co-founded the Collège de Pataphysique to mock the literary establishment.
		Boris Vian has been an idol of French youth, especially known for his surrealist love story L'Ecume des Jours and for his anti-war song "Le déserteur." Suffering from a heart condition, Vian tried to sleep as little as possible to benefit from life to the utmost.
	www.corpse.org /issue_7/burning_bush/vian.htm (208 words)

	TamTam Books
		Boris Vian was a novelist, jazz musician, jazz critic, poet, playwright, a friend of Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Raymond Queneau, Jean Cocteau, Louis Malle, Jean Paul Sartre, and numerous others of forties and fifties Parisian cultural society.
		This might perhaps be due to the fact that Vian had never been to America; in the existential jazz atmosphere of postwar Paris, the lynching of a fl man was perhaps as exotically "American" as the gumshoe.
		Vian, though, proved to be more successful at casting a troubling light on this peculiar period in French literature.
	www.tamtambooks.com /vian/vian.html (1294 words)

	AllRefer.com - Boris Vian (French Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Boris Vian[bOrEs´ vyAN] Pronunciation Key, 1920–59, French novelist.
		He patterned his literary style on that of terse American crime fiction.
		More articles from AllRefer Reference on Boris Vian
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/V/Vian-Bor.html (177 words)

	Boris Vian - a short biography
		Vian was surrealist and an absurdist by nature as well as intention.
		His goal in writing was to convey delight in the capacity language has to present an imaginary world more real and telling than the drab day-to-day existence of "ordinary life".
		Stanley Chapman captured Vian's spirit with his quintessential translation Froth on the Daydream, which has become a minor classic.
	www.toadshow.com.au /rob/vian/vian_about_rw.htm (306 words)

	Poet: Boris Vian - All poems of Boris Vian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Boris Vian was born at Ville d'Avray in 1920.
		As a writer Boris Vian is perhaps best remembered for his novels L'écume des jours (1947)...
		Boris Vian was born at Ville d'Avray into a wealthy family.
	www.poemhunter.com /boris-vian/poet-34316 (274 words)

	Boris Vian for English language readers
		Tosh will give a brief overall review of Boris Vian as a major artist of the 20th century, and the strong need on his part to present and publish this man's literary works.
		Boris Vian's "Autumn in Peking" will be available for sales on the Book Soup web site starting Thursday January 27th.
		Reflections on Boris Vian’s The Empire Builders by Jeremy M. Barker 3 October 2003 123K PDF
	www.toadshow.com.au /rob/vian/vian.htm (669 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Foam of the Daze (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I Spit on Your Graves by Boris Vian
		Though on its surface, the simplest of stories - Vian summed it up as "a man loves a woman, she falls ill, she dies" - beneath are a host of ambiguities, digressions, levels of meaning.
		Vian died June 23, 1959, at 39 as he sat watching a film version of his thriller "I Spit on Your Graves." He'd neglected to take his heart medications that morning and as the first frames ticked by on screen, he is said to have uttered, "These guys are supposed to be American?
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0966234634?v=glance (1538 words)

	Books of the poet: Boris Vian - book works writings work
		Boris Vian was something of a renaissance man and it's a shame that his work has been essentially ignored by the Anglo-American world up until now, with a recent series of translations put out by Tamtam.
		Amazing, as I think all Boris Vian's books are, with that little sparkle of fantasy that take us to a parallel world.
		The language by which Boris Vian describes this search is affectionate and intense.
	www.poemhunter.com /boris-vian/books/poet-34316 (1019 words)

	Biography of Boris Vian
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		Boris Vian's extraordinary work mirrored his fascinating life.
		A few weeks later Vian slapped a work by Vernon Sullivan entilted "J'irai cracher sur vos tombes" on D'Haullin's desk.
	www.biogs.com /famous/vianboris.html (697 words)

	TamTam Books News: The wonderful world of TamTam Books by publisher Tosh Berman
		Boris Vian's “Manual of Saint-Germain-des-Prés” is like being knocked out and finding yourself in bed with Juliette Gréco and Miles Davis circ.
		Boris Vian is your host to a tour of Saint-Germain-des-Prés.
		The beauty of this book is that Vian wrote it at the heat and the heart of the social scene - and he doesn't pull any punches.
	tamtambooks.blogspot.com (1202 words)

	French Culture \| Books \| Boris Vian: Heartsnatcher (Dalkey 2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Vian's final and most serious novel begins with an elegant psychiatrist arriving in a remote town, where he helps deliver the triplets of a woman whose husband is locked up in a bedroom because she abhors him for causing the pain and discomfort of her pregnancy.
		Although most well known as a novelist and playwright, throughout his life Boris Vian was also an engineer, poet, songwriter, actor, scriptwriter, translator, painter, composer, jazz trumpeter, and a member of the College of 'Pataphysics.
		"Vian often writes with great physical vividness, and his determined irresponsibility is underpinned by a real verbal talent."
	www.info-france-usa.org /culture/books/release/fiction/vianheartsnatcher.html (244 words)

	RCF - Book Reviews
		Vian, a frequent translator of American pulp novels, claimed that the book was written in English by an African-American writer, Vernon Sullivan.
		The book became a sensation and a scandal in 1947, when a copy of the novel, with the passage about a strangling underlined, was found in the Paris hotel room in which a man strangled his mistress.
		Unlike many pulp novels, Vian’s holds up as a strange and shocking read today, no small feat in a gratuitous age.
	www.centerforbookculture.org /review/bookreviews/00_3/Ispitonyourgrave.html (187 words)

	Boris Vian - playwright (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Boris Vian - adaptations translations by modern playwrights
		To search for published plays by Boris Vian click on one of the bookstore links above.
		You will be shown all Plays in print by Boris Vian.
	www.doollee.com /Playwrightsv/VianBoris.htm (151 words)

	Amazon.com: Music: Boris Vian Chante Boris Vian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ce disque resume bien le caractere de Boris Vian.
		Vian's lyrics are brilliant, amusing and reflects social issues accurately and the music follows the lyrics flow.
		PS: there was a horrible mistake regarding the rating of this album, i gve it 4 STARS and not 1.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000084FK?v=glance (662 words)

	Dr Alistair Rolls \| School of Language & Media (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Rolls, A. 'Boris Vian's Je voudrais pas crever: The Breaking of the Spine' in Grauby, Françoise and Michelle Royer (eds), Repenser les processus créateurs / Rethinking Creative Processes, Bern, Lang, pp.
		Rolls, A. 'Boris Vian's L'Herbe rouge: Out of the Space Ship and into the Dream' in Duffy, Larry and Catherine Emerson (eds), La Nature Dévoilée: French Literary Responses to Science, Department of French, University of Hull, pp.
		Rolls, A. Boris Vian's Je voudrais pas crever: The Breaking of the Spine, Colloquium: "Repenser les processus créateurs', Universities of New South Wales and Sydney.
	www.newcastle.edu.au /school/lang-media/staff/rollsalistair.html (840 words)

	Boris Vian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Boris Vian (March 10, 1920 - June 23, 1959) was a French writer, poet, singer, musician.
		Boris Vian was born in Ville-d'Avray[?], near Paris, France.
		Educated at the Ecole Centrale Paris he wrote 10 novels including some mass-market sex-and-violence thrillers under the pseudonym of Vernon Sullivan plus under his own name "L'Arrache Coeur" (Heartsnatcher), "L'Herbe Rouge" and what critics regard as his masterpiece, "L'Ecume des jours" (Froth on the daydream).
	www.city-search.org /bo/boris-vian.html (466 words)

	Boris Vian (1920 - 1959)
		Serge Gainsbourg said that it was seeing Boris Vian on stage that made him decide to try his hand at songwriting.
		Well, it turned out that it wasn't an American fl man who wrote it: it was Boris Vian - who was sort of the first hippie, a drug addict, a musician, a poet and an actor - and he had never been to the United States!
		It was written by a rather famous French author/musician/actor/drug addict of the 50's called Boris Vian.
	www.jahsonic.com /BorisVian.html (1062 words)

	Borders - Store Inventory - Title Detail - I Spit on Your Graves
		The English title would be "I Spit on Your Graves", but as was expected in a preface by the book's translator - Boris Vian, again - Sullivan had no hope of seeing his work published in his native country.
		The novel became a best-seller in France and established a scandalous reputation for Vian.
		But for the past forty years, Vian has become one of the most famous writers of the mid 20th Century, and his hoax of 1946 is only one example -- provocative and outrageous, though powerful and meaningful -- of his prolific production: novels and short stories, plays and scenarios, chronicles poems and songs." --Gilbert Pestureau
	www.bordersstores.com /search/title_detail.jsp?id=25519675&srchTerms=096623460X&mediaType=1&srchType=IS (1044 words)

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