2/15/2023 0 Comments Et on tuera tous les affreuxWhen WWII started, Vian was not accepted into the army due to poor health. Vian became fully immersed in the French jazz scene: for example, in 1939 he helped organize Duke Ellington's second concert in France. He subsequently enrolled at Lycée Condorcet, Paris, where he studied special mathematics until 1939. In 1937, Vian graduated from Lycée Hoche, passing baccalauréats in mathematics, philosophy, Latin, Greek and German. It was also in 1936 that Vian became interested in jazz the next year he started playing the trumpet and joined the Hot Club de France. These gatherings became the basis of his early novels: Trouble dans les andains (Turmoil in the Swaths) (1943) and particularly Vercoquin et le plancton (Vercoquin and the Plankton) (1943–44). They partook of mescaline in the form of a Mexican cactus called peyote. In 1936, Vian and his two brothers began to organize what they called "surprise-parties" ( surprise parties). From then on Boris' parents became overprotective toward him, and he would later judge them harshly for this in L'Herbe rouge and L'Arrache-coeur.įrom 1932 to 1937, Vian studied at Lycée Hoche in Versailles. īoris' later childhood was also marked with sickness as he suffered from Rheumatic fever when he was 12. The name "Boris" was chosen by Yvonne, an avid classical music lover, after seeing a performance of Mussorgsky's opera Boris Godunov. The family occupied the Les Fauvettes villa. From his father, Vian inherited a distrust of the church and the military, as well as a love of the bohemian life. His parents were Paul Vian, a young rentier, and Yvonne Ravenez, amateur pianist and harpist. Vian was born in 1920 into an upper middle-class family in the wealthy Parisian suburb of Ville d'Avray ( Hauts-de-Seine). His own music and songs enjoyed popularity during his lifetime, particularly the anti-war song " Le Déserteur" (The Deserter). He served as liaison for Hoagy Carmichael, Duke Ellington and Miles Davis in Paris, wrote for several French jazz-reviews ( Le Jazz Hot, Paris Jazz) and published numerous articles dealing with jazz both in the United States and in France. Vian was an important influence on the French jazz scene. His novel Froth on the Daydream ( L'Écume des jours) is the best known of these works and one of the few translated into English. Vian's other fiction, published under his real name, featured a highly individual writing style with numerous made-up words, subtle wordplay and surrealistic plots. Those published under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan were bizarre parodies of criminal fiction, highly controversial at the time of their release due to their unconventional outlook. Novelist, poet, playwright, journalist, engineer, musician, songwriter, singerīoris Vian ( French: 10 March 1920 – 23 June 1959) was a French polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor and engineer who is primarily remembered for his novels. Vernon Sullivan, Bison Ravi, Baron Visi, Brisavion
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