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Blues for a Black Cat and Other Stories
Boris Vian
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Description for Blues for a Black Cat and Other Stories
Paperback. Features ten of the author's best short stories, evoking the seamy side of '50s Parisian night life. Editor(s): Older, Julia. Translator(s): Older, Julia. Series: French Modernist Library. Num Pages: 144 pages, 6ill. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 206 x 130 x 9. Weight in Grams: 172.
Ten of Vian's best jazzy, outrageous short stories, evoking the seamy side of '50s Parisian night life
Ten of Vian's best jazzy, outrageous short stories, evoking the seamy side of '50s Parisian night life
Product Details
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Series
French Modernist Library
Condition
New
Weight
166g
Number of Pages
118
Place of Publication
Nebraska, United States
ISBN
9780803296091
SKU
V9780803296091
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About Boris Vian
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.
Reviews for Blues for a Black Cat and Other Stories
"[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 façade. 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