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Vercoquin and the Plankton

Author : Boris Vian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781939663825
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (638 download)

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Download or read book Vercoquin and the Plankton written by Boris Vian and published by . This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nonconformist satire of both bureaucracy and nonconformism from the French polymath and author of Foam of the Days Written at the age of 23 for his friends in the winter of 1943-44, Vercoquin and the Plankton was the first of Vian's novels to be published under his own name. Published in 1947, the book came out two months after his succès de scandale I Spit on Your Graves and two months before the publication of his beloved classic The Foam of the Days. At once social documentary, scathing satire and jazz manifesto, Vercoquin and the Plankton describes the collision of two worlds under the Vichy regime: that of the youthful dandyism of the ever-partying Zazous and the murderously maniacal bureaucracy of a governmental office for standardization. In this roman à clef drawn from Vian's own contradictory lives as a jazz musician on the Left Bank and an engineer at the French National Organization for Standardization, the reader is introduced to a handful of characters inhabiting a world lying somewhere between Occupied Paris and Looney Tunes. Boris Vian (1920-59) was a French polymath who in his short life managed to inhabit the roles of writer, poet, playwright, musician, singer/songwriter, translator, music critic, actor, inventor and engineer, before dying of a heart attack at the age of 39, after authoring ten novels, several volumes of short stories, plays, operas, articles and nearly 500 songs. Vian is remembered as one of the reigning spirits of the postwar Parisian Latin Quarter, a friend to everyone from Jean-Paul Sartre to Raymond Queneau and Miles Davis, playing trumpet with Claude Abadie and Claude Luter, and an influence on such future kindred spirits as Serge Gainsbourg.

If I Say If

Author : Alistair Rolls
Publisher : University of Adelaide Press
ISBN 13 : 1922064629
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (22 download)

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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.

Retranslation and Reception

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004517871
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Retranslation and Reception written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-08-22 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive study of the relationship between Retranslation and Reception. New translations always reveal a changing interest in authors and their work, and this book explores this phenomenon through a wide variety of case studies of literary reception.

Vercoquin et le plancton

Author : Boris Vian
Publisher : Editions Gallimard
ISBN 13 : 9782070363742
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (637 download)

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Download or read book Vercoquin et le plancton written by Boris Vian and published by Editions Gallimard. This book was released on 1994 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le Major avait une façon assez personnelle de danser, un peu déroutante au premier abord, mais à laquelle on s'accoutumait assez vite. De temps à autre, s'arrêtant sur le pied droit, il levait la jambe gauche de façon que le fémur fasse avec le corps, tenu vertical, un angle de 90°. Le tibia restait parallèle au corps, puis s'en écartait légèrement dans un mouvement spasmodique, le pied demeurant parfaitement horizontal pendant ce temps. Le tibia redevenu vertical, le Major abaissait son fémur, puis continuait comme si de rien n'était... Les surprises-parties en 1945 racontées par Boris Vian.

Mood Indigo

Author : Boris Vian
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374710872
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Mood Indigo written by Boris Vian and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The basis of the new major movie from Michel Gondry, starring Audrey Tautou, the beloved French modern classic hailed as "the most poignant love story of our time" by Raymond Queneau The story is simple: Boy meets girl; boy marries girl; girl falls ill on their honeymoon with a water lily on the lung, which can only be treated by being surrounded by flowers; boy goes broke desperately trying to keep his true love alive. First published in 1947, Mood Indigo perfectly captures the feverishly creative, melancholy romance of mid-century Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Recently voted number ten on Le Monde's list of the 100 Books of the Century (the top ten also included works by Camus, Proust, Kafka, Hemingway, and Steinbeck), Boris Vian's novel has been an icon of French literature for fifty years—the avant-garde, populist masterpiece by one of twentieth-century Paris's most intriguing cultural figures, a touchstone for generations of revolutionary young people, a jazz-fueled, science-fiction-infused, sexy, fantastical, nouveau-decadent tear-jerker that has charmed and beguiled hundreds of thousands of readers around the world. With the help of Michel Gondry and Audrey Tautou, it is set to seduce many, many more.

Drehwurm, Swing und das Plankton

Author : Boris Vian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book Drehwurm, Swing und das Plankton written by Boris Vian and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

I Spit on Your Graves

Author : Boris Vian
Publisher : TamTam Books
ISBN 13 : 9780966234602
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (346 download)

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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.

Heartsnatcher

Author : Boris Vian
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN 13 : 9781564782991
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (829 download)

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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

Autumn in Peking

Author : Boris Vian
Publisher : Tamtam Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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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.

Mood Indigo

Author : Boris Vian
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374534225
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (745 download)

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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.

Curl

Author : T. O. Bobe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781939663429
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (634 download)

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Download or read book Curl written by T. O. Bobe and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. Gica is the world's greatest barber. He holds the world record for sculptural hairstyling and has won three Olympic golds in neck massage. But his specialty is the shave. Mr. Gica's shop has six mirrors on the walls, six sinks, six barber chairs and no employees. Always crowded, its chairs always occupied, the barbershop forms an off-kilter microcosm: a world of melancholic kitsch that includes opera singers, football players, gladiators, the secret police, four lost hippies and other ludic figures--including our superhuman protagonist's ever-lurking antagonist in perpetual disguise, Dorel Vasilescu. Trying on a variety of voices and modes like so many work coats, Curlscissor-snips love poems, mock-critical commentaries with footnotes, dreams, diary entries, streams of words without punctuation, cultural references and a number of rebellious hairs off a number of necks to sculpt a patchwork portrait of universal loneliness. This is the first translation of T.O. Bobe into English. T.O. Bobe(born 1969) is a Romanian poet, novelist and screenwriter living in Bucharest. Two of his books have been finalists for prestigious Romanian ASPRO prizes.

Foam of the Daze

Author : Boris Vian
Publisher : TamTam Books
ISBN 13 : 9780966234633
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (346 download)

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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.

Strange Attractor

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strange Attractor written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Historical Dictionary of French Literature

Author : John Flower
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538168588
Total Pages : 659 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of French Literature written by John Flower and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the possible exception of Great Britain, France can justifiably lay claim to possess the richest literary history of any country in Western Europe. This book covers the authors and their works, literary movements, and philosophical and social developments that have had a direct impact on style or content, and major historical events such as the two world wars, the Franco-Prussian War, the Algerian War, or the events of May 1968 that are directly reflected in a substantial body of imaginative writing. Historical Dictionary of French Literature, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 500 cross-referenced entries on individual writers and key texts, significant movements, groups, associations, and periodicals, and on the literary reactions to major national and international events such as revolutions and wars. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about French literature.

The Children's Crusade

Author : Marcel Schwob
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Children's Crusade written by Marcel Schwob and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Die Is Cast

Author : Robert Desnos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781939663696
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (636 download)

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Download or read book The Die Is Cast written by Robert Desnos and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A startlingly contemporary portrait of drug addiction in prewar Paris Published in 1943 (just a year before its author was arrested by the Gestapo for his Resistance activities), The Die Is Castwas a departure for Robert Desnos: a shift from his earlier, frenetic Surrealist prose to a social realism that borrowed as much from his life experience as his career as a journalist. Drawing on his own use of drugs in the 1920s and his doomed relationship with the chanteuse Yvonne George, Desnos here portrays a band of opium, cocaine and heroin users from all walks of life in Paris. It is a startlingly contemporary portrayal of overdoses, arrests, suicides and the flattened solitude of the addict, yet published in occupied Paris, years before "junkie literature" established itself with the Beat Generation. An anomaly both in his career and for having been published under the Occupation by an active member of the Resistance, The Die Is Castnow stands as timely a piece of work as it had been untimely when it first appeared. Robert Desnos(1900-45) was Surrealism's most accomplished practitioner of automatic writing and dictation before his break with André Breton in 1929. His career in journalism and radio culminated in an active role in the French Resistance. Desnos was arrested by the Gestapo in 1944, and passed through several concentration camps until finally dying of typhoid in Terezín in 1945, a few days after the camp he was in was liberated.

Index, A History of the

Author : Dennis Duncan
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1324050519
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Index, A History of the written by Dennis Duncan and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Editors' Choice Book Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Literary Hub and Goodreads A playful history of the humble index and its outsized effect on our reading lives. Most of us give little thought to the back of the book—it’s just where you go to look things up. But as Dennis Duncan reveals in this delightful and witty history, hiding in plain sight is an unlikely realm of ambition and obsession, sparring and politicking, pleasure and play. In the pages of the index, we might find Butchers, to be avoided, or Cows that sh-te Fire, or even catch Calvin in his chamber with a Nonne. Here, for the first time, is the secret world of the index: an unsung but extraordinary everyday tool, with an illustrious but little-known past. Charting its curious path from the monasteries and universities of thirteenth-century Europe to Silicon Valley in the twenty-first, Duncan uncovers how it has saved heretics from the stake, kept politicians from high office, and made us all into the readers we are today. We follow it through German print shops and Enlightenment coffee houses, novelists’ living rooms and university laboratories, encountering emperors and popes, philosophers and prime ministers, poets, librarians and—of course—indexers along the way. Revealing its vast role in our evolving literary and intellectual culture, Duncan shows that, for all our anxieties about the Age of Search, we are all index-rakers at heart—and we have been for eight hundred years.