Dr Tony Shaw
Mainly the Obscure, and/or mainly 'Outsider' Literature
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Vian (Boris)
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Vian (Boris)
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11 May 2020
Vernon Sullivan (Boris Vian):
Et on tuera tous les affreux | To Hell with the Ugly
(1948)
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This edition, discovered in a boîte à lire in Bergues (Nord), is by 'Vernon Sullivan' but has Boris Vian on the cover. Of cour...
17 January 2017
Boris Vian:
L'Herbe rouge | Red Grass
(1950)
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As this is Boris Vian, the reader would expect to be thrown into a strange space, but L'Herbe rouge (translated unsurprisingly as Re...
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15 September 2014
Boris Vian in Ville d'Avray, Hauts-de-Seine (92)
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33 rue Pradier, Ville d'Avray. 'ICI VÉCUT BORIS VIAN ÉCRIVAIN POÈTE ET MUSICIEN VILLE D'AVRAY 1920 PARIS 1959...
27 July 2012
Boris Vian:
J'irai cracher sur vos tombes / I Shall Spit on Your Graves
[1946]
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Les Éditions du Scorpion was a French publishing firm created in 1946, and its founder, Jean d'Halluin, asked Boris Vian in the same ...
14 June 2012
Boris Vian:
L'Écume des jours
(1947)
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The first paragraph of L'Écume des jours (variously translated in English, and two publications have rendered it Mood Indigo 1 and...
21 September 2008
Boris Vian –
Le Déserteur
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It is sad that English people tend to know little of French singer-songwriters (or chanteurs à paroles .) Nevertheless, Jacques Brel, George...
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