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Winner of the Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion Award for 1987,
Louis Malle's Au revoir les enfants has been acclaimed as a
masterpiece wherever it has been shown. One of the great filmmakers
of our time, Malle both wrote and directed this delicate and
heartbreaking portrait of a friendship -- between Julian, a
Catholic boy, and his schoolmate Jean, one of several Jewish
children being sheltered at a boarding school during the Nazi
occupation of France. It is once a moving, unforgettable story and
an evocation of a deeply personal formative experience in Malle's
life.
" 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.
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