Blues for a Black Cat and Other Stories (Paperback, New Ed)

" This collection] displays Vian's range from gallows humor to verbal fireworks, and happily serves to give visibility to this important writer."- Publishers Weekly. "Ultimately, Blues for a Black Cat is a collection of moral fables, albeit fables told in a cynical, mocking voice and set in a skewed version of the real world. Under the surface absurdity and verbal play, they offer serious indictments of human weakness and pretensions. Further, they reveal the spiritual emptiness just beneath our civilized faade. Vian's blues are not only for a black cat, but for a society without meaning."- Manoa. " Blues for a Black Cat] brings back the nimble Vian in a collection of his short fiction, initially published as Les Fourmis in 1949. The work has the unmistakable flavor of the time and place, Claude Abadie's jazz band, the coded and absurdist messages of rebellion, the wistful fables, verbal riffs and goofy anarchic encounters; the mise-en-scene includes an expiring jazzman who sells his sweat, a cat with a British accent and a piano that mixes a cocktail when "Mood Indigo" is played."-Boston Globe. Boris Vian (1920-59), a trained engineer and jazz trumpet player, was a major literary figure in World War II France. Julia Older is the author or editor of many works. Her stories, translations, and poems have appeared in New Directions, the New Yorker, and many other journals.

General

Imprint:	Bison Books
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	French Modernist Library
Release date:	April 2001
First published:	April 2001
Authors:	Boris Vian
Editors:	Julia Older
Translators:	Julia Older
Foreword by:	Louis Malle
Dimensions:	204 x 127 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	116
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-8032-9609-1
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General
LSN:	0-8032-9609-6
Barcode:	9780803296091

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