
Boris Vian Transatlantic
Sources, Myths, and Dreams
Christopher M. Jones(Author)
Peter Lang Verlag
Will be published approx. on 1. December 1998
Book
Hardback
X, 176 pages
978-0-8204-4013-2 (ISBN)
Description
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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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 23 cm
Width: 16 cm
Weight
440 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8204-4013-2 (9780820440132)
Schweitzer Classification
Person
The Author: Christopher M. Jones is Senior Lecturer in French in the Department of Modern Languages at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he teaches francophone language and culture. He received his M.A. from Boston College and his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.