"Vian's book has a certain weary, mysogynistic humor Where the ptotagonist kills his mistress was found in the hotel room of a murder victim, it gained a That he can compose a best-seller novel, and when a copy of the In the hard-boiled style of crime fiction. J'irai cracher sur vos tombes (1946) was penned under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan in ten days The song was composed by Harold Berg and was first performed by Vian's friend Marcel Mouloudji. Written in the form of a letter, addressed to Monsieur le Président, the song outraged the French patriots, and was forbidden to broadcast on the radio. Vian's most beautiful songs include the pacifist 'Le déserteur' (1954), which sold thousands of records. He also contributed to Jean-Paul Sartre's magazine Les Temps Modernes Penned several hundred songs, mader a reputation as a cabaret singer, and wrote reviews for the magazine Le Jazz-Hot. After the war he played trumpet in the Left Bank caves, It was written in 1943, but published in 1946. During the 1940s he was employed for a time by the French Associationįor Standardization, a bureaucracy, which Vian satirized in his first novel, Vercoquin et le plancton. Receiving a civil engineering diploma in 1942. He studied philosophy at the Versailles lycée, and excelled in mathematics at the Lycée Condorcet, At the age of 17 he learnt trumpet after seeing Duke Ellinton play. However, it did not prevent him from pouring his energy into a number of artistic projects later in his life. Historical novels novels where colored men sleep with white women and don't get lynched novels about pure young girls who manage to grow up unblemished by the vicious small-town life which surrounds them." (from I Spit on Your Graves )īoris Vian was born at Ville d'Avray into a bourgeois family, that lost much of its wealth in the Depression.Īt the age of 12 Vian developed rheumatic fever and later he contracted typhoid which left him with an enlarged heart. It was a story of a black man named Lee Anderson, who avenges the lynching of his younger, darker skinned brother by raping and killing white girls. He died in a Parisian cinema at the age of 39 while watching a preview of the film I Spit on Your Graves. Vian's collected works amount to more than 50 vols. As a writer Boris Vian is perhaps best remembered for his novels L'écume des jours (1947) and J'irai cracher sur vos tombes (1946, I Spit on Your Graves). zip of the website is also available.įrench novelist and playwright, a jazz connoisseur and critic, Dixieland trumpeters, and author of more than 400 songs. All pages are unmodified as they originally appeared some links and images may no longer function. The original website was published by Petri Liukkonen under Creative Commons BY-ND-NC 1.0 Finland and reproduced here under those terms for non-commercial use. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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