Boris Vian Transatlantic
Subtitle: Sources, Myths, and Dreams (Francophone Cultures and Literatures, Vol. 25)
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing; Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter
Published: June 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780820440132
Subjects: European - French; Vian, Boris; Literature - Classics / Criticism; 1920-1959; France; Jazz; Relations; United States; Vian, Boris,; Poetry
Description: This study concentrates 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 postwar France.