Boris Vian
Paperback | Pages: 284 pages Rating: 3.96 | 2255 Users | 90 Reviews
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| Title | : | Autumn in Peking |
| Author | : | Boris Vian |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 284 pages |
| Published | : | February 29th 2012 by Tamtam Books (first published 1947) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. France. Novels |
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Boris Vian was a jack of all trades - although unfortunately his name was Boris and "Boris of all trades" never took off as a turn of phrase. But nevertheless Vian was a great songwriter, playwright, singer, jazz critic and, of course novelist so it should have been Boris instead of Jack. Vian's 1947 novel Autumn in Peking (L'Automne a Pekin) is perhaps Vian's most slapstick work, with an added amount of despair in its exotic recipe for a violent cocktail drink.The story takes place in the imaginary desert called Exopotamie where all the leading characters take part in the building of a train station with tracks that go nowhere. Houses and buildings are destroyed to build this unnecessary structure - and in Vian's world waste not, make not.
In Alistair Rolls' pioneering study of Vian's novels, "The Flight of the Angels," he expresses that Exopotamie is a thinly disguised version of Paris, where after the war the city started changing its previous centuries of architecture to something more modern. Yes, something dull to take the place of what was exciting and mysterious.
Vian, in a mixture of great humor and unequal amount of disgust, introduces various 'eccentric' characters in this 'desert' adventure, such as Anne and Angel who are best friends; and Rochelle who is in love and sleeps with Anne, while Angel is madly in love with her.
Besides the trio there is also Doctor Mangemanche; the archeologist Athanagore Porphyroginite, his aide, Cuivre; and Pipo - all of them in a locality similar to Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, where there is a tinge of darkness and anything is possible, except for happiness.
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| Original Title: | L'Automne à Pékin |
| ISBN: | 0966234642 (ISBN13: 9780966234640) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Amadis Dudu |
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Ratings: 3.96 From 2255 Users | 90 ReviewsJudgment About Books Autumn in Peking
A book titled 'L'Automne à Pékin' that, as far as I could tell, not even features one of those two substantives even once throughout the whole thing... I think that says something about this book already, but let me also mention the dazzling surrealistic desert landscape, a huge load of simply designed characters (it's easier to kill them that way) that interact between each other simply stunningly while they all work together on the arbitrary task of building a railroad who no one ever wouldA delirious, sometimes migraine-inducing love story à la Boris Vian, with bits of L'écume des jours inserted subtly, the typical weirdness and the usual absurd setting. Vian's is one of the most errant and fascinating universes in literature, and if you're willing, you can get lost and love it. Special mention to the ironic "easter eggs" in almost every paragraph that surprise and delight the reader all the way.
Boris Vian is one of the most creative writers I've read. Such a unique style of turning classic clichees in most extraordinary visually images.
People do the same stupid things all over again, no matter how much information about previous attempts they poses. First railway track in the desert was a disaster? Let's build another one!
Is there a statue of Boris Vian somewhere? There right proper oughter be. Say I, Pook J. Arbuckle III. Boris Vian was a supreme polymath and renaissance man. Originally an engineer and learn'd man of science, he became a writer both of literature (under his own name and, more successfully whilst he was alive, the nom de guerre Vernon Sullivan) and music. Not only did he write and perform popular songs (generally of an insubordinate and irreverent nature), influencing Serge Gainsbourg and
Amazing book, very funny. No autumn or Peking, sorry.
Autumn in Peking Boris VianA few years ago I met a thirty something Frenchman in a youth hostel in Bariloche, Argentina and he confessed to me he had read everything by Boris Vian including many works yet to be translated into English but had read them a long time ago, during his University years, and that he hasnt revisited them since. Vian represents a period author for my French friend; specifically young adulthood. Similar to say Kurt Vonnegut, Jack Kerouac, Ayn Rand, or Hermann Hesse for
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