
Blues For A Black Cat And Other Stories (French Modernist Library)
"[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 indictme...
Series: French Modernist Library
Paperback: 118 pages
Publisher: Bison Books; New edition edition (April 1, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780803296091
ISBN-13: 978-0803296091
ASIN: 0803296096
Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.3 x 8 inches
Amazon Rank: 1777171
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“Boris Vian showed up in Sarah Bakewell's Existentialist Cafe and I wanted to read some of his work. This was a good sample, but the sample was ample. I will not be buying any more of his work....”
ts 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. 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.
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