Title: Boris Vian transatlantic
First published: 1998
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.
Subjects: Relations, Intellectual life, Jazz, French literature, history and criticism, 20th century
Places: France, United States
People: Boris Vian (1920-1959)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PQ2643.I152 Z72 1998