Reading Session on Boris Vian

Reading Session on Boris Vian

17 May, 5.00 pm

@ The library, Alliance Française de Trivandrum

Alliance Française de Trivandrum is organizing a Reading Session on Boris Vian, on 17 May at 5.00pm @

The library, Alliance Française de Trivandrum. The event is designed to introduce the French writer  Boris Vian.

Boris Vian (10 March 1920 – 23 June 1959) was a French polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor and engineer. He is best remembered today for his novels. Those published under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan were bizarre parodies of criminal fiction, highly controversial at the time of their release. Vian’s other fiction, published under his real name, featured a highly individual writing style with numerous made-up words, subtle wordplay and surrealistic plots. L’Écume des jours (Froth on the Daydream) is the best known of these works, and one of the few translated into English.

Vian was also an important influence on the French jazz scene.  His own music and songs enjoyed popularity during his lifetime, particularly the anti-war song: “Le Deserteur”.