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Boris Vian Transatlantic: Sources, Myths, and Dreams

Boris Vian Transatlantic: Sources, Myths, and Dreams

Alvarez-Detrell, Tamara
Paulson, Michael G.
Jones, Christopher M.

Hardcover

Series: Francophone Cultures and Literatures, Book 25

Literary CriticismFrench History

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ISBN10: 0820440132
ISBN13: 9780820440132
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: Dec 1 1998
Pages: 176
Language: English
Boris Vian lived during a period of redefinition in France, from the instability of the Thirties, through the German Occupation, then into the friendly if overwhelming presence of the American liberators. Vian resisted identification with the movements now associated with mid-century French literary and intellectual history - surrealism, existentialism, the absurd - while creating a multifaceted oeuvre that owed and contributed something to them all. This study concentrates, however, on the importance of American influences on Vian's extensive jazz activities and his mock translations of American noir novels under the name Vernon Sullivan. Vian personally embodied the increasingly transatlantic nature of Western culture and the melding of elite and popular forms of expression. The diverse components of this synthesis shed light on the construction of both individual and national identity in post-war France.

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