TY  - GEN
AU  - Rolls,Alistair
AU  - West-Sooby,John
AU  - Fornasiero,Jean
AU  - Rolls,Alistair
AU  - West-Sooby,John
AU  - Fornasiero,Jean
TI  - If I say If: The Poems and Short Stories of Boris Vian
SN  - vian-if
PY  - 2014///
PB  - University of Adelaide Press
KW  - Literary studies: poetry & poets
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
KW  - french english
KW  - a life in paradox
KW  - translation
KW  - the poetry of boris vian
KW  - je veux pas crever
KW  - translated
KW  - maria freij
KW  - boris vian
KW  - the poems and short stories of boris vian
KW  - if i say if
KW  - christelle conzalo
KW  - peter hodges
KW  - francois roulmann
KW  - rereading vian: a poetics of partial disclosure
KW  - audrey camus
KW  - the short stories of boris vian
KW  - boris vian and short fiction
KW  - translating boris vian
KW  - Paris
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33177/1/560101.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33177/1/560101.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/31302
ER  -