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Vercoquin and the Plankton (Paperback): Boris Vian Vercoquin and the Plankton (Paperback)
Boris Vian; Introduction by Terry Bradford; Translated by Terry Bradford
R346 Discovery Miles 3 460 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Heartsnatcher (Paperback, 1st U.S. ed): Boris Vian Heartsnatcher (Paperback, 1st U.S. ed)
Boris Vian; Translated by Raymond Queneau
R441 R374 Discovery Miles 3 740 Save R67 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Set in a bizarre and slightly sinister town where the elderly are auctioned off at an Old Folks Fair, the townspeople assail the priest in hopes of making it rain, and the official town scapegoat bears the shame of the citizens by fishing junk out of the river with his teeth. Heartsnatcher is Boris Vian's most playful and most serious work. The main character is Clementine, a mother who punishes her husband for causing her the excruciating pain of giving birth to three babies. As they age, she becomes increasingly obsessed with protecting them, going so far as to build an invisible wall around their property.

Autumn in Peking (Paperback): Boris Vian Autumn in Peking (Paperback)
Boris Vian
R430 Discovery Miles 4 300 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Boris Vian was a jack of all trades - although unfortunately his name was Boris and "Boris of all trades" never took off as a turn of phrase. But nevertheless Vian was a great songwriter, playwright, singer, jazz critic and, of course novelist so it should have been Boris instead of Jack. Vian's 1947 novel Autumn in Peking (L'Automne Pikin) is perhaps Vian's most slapstick work, with an added amount of despair in its exotic recipe for a violent cocktail drink.
The story takes place in the imaginary desert called Exopotamie where all the leading characters take part in the building of a train station with tracks that go nowhere. Houses and buildings are destroyed to build this unnecessary structure - and in Vian's world waste not, make not.
In Alistair Rolls' pioneering study of Vian's novels, "The Flight of the Angels," he expresses that Exopotamie is a thinly disguised version of Paris, where after the war the city started changing its previous centuries of architecture to something more modern. Yes, something dull to take the place of what was exciting and mysterious.
Vian, in a mixture of great humor and unequal amount of disgust, introduces various 'eccentric' characters in this 'desert' adventure, such as Anne and Angel who are best friends; and Rochelle who is in love and sleeps with Anne, while Angel is madly in love with her.
Besides the trio there is also Doctor Mangemanche; the archeologist Athanagore Porphyroginite, his aide, Cuivre; and Pipo - all of them in a locality similar to Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, where there is a tinge of darkness and anything is possible, except for happiness.

Todos Los Muertos Tienen La Misma Piel (English, Spanish, Paperback): Boris Vian Todos Los Muertos Tienen La Misma Piel (English, Spanish, Paperback)
Boris Vian
R295 Discovery Miles 2 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Dan, un barman que lleva una vida relativamente apacible junto su esposa y su hija, pierde los estribos cuando se le presenta un hermanastro del que no tenia ninguna noticia, y lo mas grave del asunto es que, a diferencia de Dan, su hermano Richard es negro. Eso despierta un resorte que Dan desconocia de si mismo, al que acaba matando, da un vuelco a la vido del barman.

La Espuma de Los Dias (English, Spanish, Paperback): Boris Vian La Espuma de Los Dias (English, Spanish, Paperback)
Boris Vian
R539 Discovery Miles 5 390 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Sin adscribirse a ninguna tendencia y sin dejarse encasillar en ninguna escuela ni corriente, la obra de Boris Vian (1920-1959) puede resultar huidiza a la vez que cargada de una honda angustia vital, la angustia del tiempo destructor, del deterioro, de la muerte, a traves de un universo insolito, descabellado y fascinante.

Escupire Sobre Vuestra Tumba (English, Spanish, Paperback): Boris Vian Escupire Sobre Vuestra Tumba (English, Spanish, Paperback)
Boris Vian
R295 Discovery Miles 2 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Violenta y pornografica, la novela de Vian busca herir la sensibilidad del lector para dar mayor virulencia a su alegato antirracista. Una lectura loca y trepidante.

Fiche de lecture L'Herbe rouge (Analyse litteraire de reference et resume complet) (French, Paperback): Boris Vian Fiche de lecture L'Herbe rouge (Analyse litteraire de reference et resume complet) (French, Paperback)
Boris Vian
R227 Discovery Miles 2 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Blues for a Black Cat and Other Stories (Paperback, New Ed): Boris Vian Blues for a Black Cat and Other Stories (Paperback, New Ed)
Boris Vian; Edited by Julia Older; Translated by Julia Older; Foreword by Louis Malle
R390 R325 Discovery Miles 3 250 Save R65 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

" 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.

Fiche de lecture J'irai cracher sur vos tombes (Etude integrale) (French, Paperback): Boris Vian Fiche de lecture J'irai cracher sur vos tombes (Etude integrale) (French, Paperback)
Boris Vian
R251 Discovery Miles 2 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Fiche de lecture L'Ecume des jours (Analyse litteraire de reference et resume complet) (French, Paperback): Boris Vian Fiche de lecture L'Ecume des jours (Analyse litteraire de reference et resume complet) (French, Paperback)
Boris Vian
R232 Discovery Miles 2 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Fiche de lecture L'Arrache-coeur de Boris Vian (Analyse litteraire de reference et resume complet) (French, Paperback):... Fiche de lecture L'Arrache-coeur de Boris Vian (Analyse litteraire de reference et resume complet) (French, Paperback)
Boris Vian
R229 Discovery Miles 2 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Fiche de lecture L'Herbe rouge de Boris Vian (Etude integrale) (French, Paperback): Boris Vian Fiche de lecture L'Herbe rouge de Boris Vian (Etude integrale) (French, Paperback)
Boris Vian
R251 Discovery Miles 2 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Fiche de lecture L'Arrache-coeur (Etude integrale) (French, Paperback): Boris Vian Fiche de lecture L'Arrache-coeur (Etude integrale) (French, Paperback)
Boris Vian
R276 Discovery Miles 2 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Fiche de lecture J'irai cracher sur vos tombes de Boris Vian (Analyse litteraire de reference et resume complet) (French,... Fiche de lecture J'irai cracher sur vos tombes de Boris Vian (Analyse litteraire de reference et resume complet) (French, Paperback)
Boris Vian
R227 Discovery Miles 2 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Fiche de lecture L'Ecume des jours (Etude integrale) (French, Paperback): Boris Vian Fiche de lecture L'Ecume des jours (Etude integrale) (French, Paperback)
Boris Vian
R279 Discovery Miles 2 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
L'Herbe rouge de Boris Vian (fiche de lecture et analyse complete de l'oeuvre) (French, Paperback): Boris Vian L'Herbe rouge de Boris Vian (fiche de lecture et analyse complete de l'oeuvre) (French, Paperback)
Boris Vian
R441 Discovery Miles 4 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
L'Arrache-coeur de Boris Vian (fiche de lecture et analyse complete de l'oeuvre) (French, Paperback): Boris Vian L'Arrache-coeur de Boris Vian (fiche de lecture et analyse complete de l'oeuvre) (French, Paperback)
Boris Vian
R608 Discovery Miles 6 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
L'Ecume des jours de Boris Vian (fiche de lecture et analyse complete de l'oeuvre) (French, Paperback): Boris Vian L'Ecume des jours de Boris Vian (fiche de lecture et analyse complete de l'oeuvre) (French, Paperback)
Boris Vian
R445 Discovery Miles 4 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
J'irai cracher sur vos tombes (French, Paperback): Boris Vian J'irai cracher sur vos tombes (French, Paperback)
Boris Vian
R244 R218 Discovery Miles 2 180 Save R26 (11%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
L'ecume des jours (French, Paperback): Boris Vian L'ecume des jours (French, Paperback)
Boris Vian
R318 Discovery Miles 3 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Boris Vian - Lingenieux Romanesque (CD): Boris Vian Boris Vian - Lingenieux Romanesque (CD)
Boris Vian
R433 Discovery Miles 4 330 Out of stock
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