Ça m'apprendra à dire des conneries

by Boris Vian

A l’occasion du centenaire de sa naissance, mille et une pensées, bêtises et humeurs de Boris Vian ont été réunies dans un petit recueil.
Mille et une facéties, pensées et humeurs de Boris Vian, mille et une merveilleuses conneries que l’écrivain, chanteur, inventeur, musicien, poète, trompettiste a dites ou écrites, directement ou au travers de ses personnages.
Une lecture jubilatoire et inépuisable, où s’expriment aussi bien la fantaisie que la sagacité de Boris Vian.

120 pages, Pocket Book

First published June 16, 2020

About the author

Boris Vian was a French polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor and engineer. He is best remembered for novels such as L’Écume des jours and L'Arrache-cœur (translated into English as Froth on the Daydream and Heartsnatcher, respectively). He is also known for highly controversial "criminal" fiction released under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan and some of his songs (particularly the anti-war Le Déserteur). Vian was also fascinated with jazz: he served as liaison for, among others, Duke Ellington and Miles Davis in Paris, wrote for several French jazz-reviews (Le Jazz Hot, Paris Jazz) and published numerous articles dealing with jazz both in the United States and in France.