Boris Vian was a novelist, jazz musician, jazz critic, poet, playwright, a friend of Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Raymond Queneau, Jean Cocteau, Louis Malle, Jean Paul Sartre, and numerous others of forties and fifties Parisian cultural society. He was also a French translator of American hard-bo...
Sin adscribirse a ninguna tendencia y sin dejarse encasillar en ninguna escuela ni corriente, la obra de Boris Vian (1920-1959) puede resultar huidiza a la vez que cargada de una honda angustia vital, la angustia del tiempo destructor, del deterioro, de la muerte, a traves de un universo insolito...
Violenta y pornográfica, la novela de Vian busca herir la sensibilidad del lector para dar mayor virulencia a su alegato antirracista. Una lectura loca y trepidante.
Colin and Chloe, sitting at the back, looked sadly and soulfully at the passing landscape. The sky was overcast. Red birds flew as low as the telegraph wires, going up and down with the same monotonous rhythm, and their harsh piercing shrieks echoed back from the leaden water of the long never-en...