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Petits Spectacles

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« Les Trois Baudets», «La Rose rouge», «L' Amiral», «Le Night-club» : ces cabarets illustres des années cinquante virent débuter les meilleurs chanteurs, comédiens et fantaisistes de notre temps. Boris Vian écrivit pour eux de nombreux sketches ou pièces brèves, dont les interprètes s'appelaient Jacqueline Maillan, Yves Robert, Rosy Varte ou Jacques Fabbri. Il puisa aux sources les plus diverses, donnant avec Adam, Eve et le troisième sexe une hilarante relecture de la Genèse, transportant les spectateurs de Dernière Heure au début du troisième millénaire, ou proposant, avec Cinémassacre , une étourdissante parodie des grands genres du cinéma, du réalisme italien au film d'horreur, d' «Alfred Hitchpoule» à «Cecil B. de Cent Mille»... Compositeur, dramaturge, chroniqueur, poète... Voici encore un des mille visages, à découvrir ou à redécouvrir, de l' inoubliable romancier de L' Ecume des jours.

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First published October 1, 1980

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Boris Vian

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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.

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