Boris Vian, born March 10, 1920 in Ville-dAvray (Hauts-de-Seine) and died June 23, 1959 in Paris (7th arrondissement)[1], is a writer, poet, lyricist, singer, music critic, French jazz musician (trumpeter) and artistic director.An engineer trained at the École centrale, he also devoted himself to the activities of screenwriter, translator (American English), lecturer, actor and painter.An engineer by training, Boris Vian began his artistic career as a trumpeter in the jazz clubs of Saint-Germain-des-Prés.Despite the success and the scandal caused by the pastiches of American noir novels that he wrote under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan, including Ill Spit on Your Graves, one of the bestsellers of 1947, And we will kill all the awful ones and The Dead Have All the Same Skin, the novels that he published under his real name in the post-war years, Vercoquin and the Plankton, LEcume des days or even LArrache-coeur, did not bring him the expected notoriety.Also the author of plays, songs and poems, and musical critiques, Vian combines humor and melancholy in his novels with poetic writing that highlights his boundless imagination.Heart sick since adolescence, he succumbed at the age of 39, leaving behind a rich and varied body of work that remains inimitable to this day...(Audiobook)
Boris Vian : Citations
