In Paris in the 1950s Boris Vian was everything-poet, fiction writer, singer, subversive, actor, musician, and jazz critic. He was my friend, and I admired him passionately for his eclecticism, devastating irony, and taste for provocation.Fortunately, in France since his death Boris Vian has become the object of a veritable cult, and his work constantly is being reprinted.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Boris Vian
BORIS VIAN (1920-59) was an engineer, inventor, jazz trumpeter, actor, recording artist, and prolific writer. Julia Older is the author of The Island Queen and the editor of Celia Thaxter: Selected Writings. Her five poetry titles include Hermaphroditus in America. Her translations, stories, essays, and poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poets and Writers, and many other publications.
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