Boris Vian
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Any fans of this madman out here? I just finished reading Heartsnatcher and loved the shit out of it. Any of his other works worth checking out? Any authors similar to him?
>>7649515
Only book of him i have read is Autumn in Peking which i though was great.
>>7649515
Haven't read Heartsnatcher but Froth on the Daydream and Red Grass are great
I thought of a couple authors as similar in some respects but can't remember who they were
>>7649515
jason?
>>7649515
Haven't read anything by him, but I recently became aware of him via noise/sometimes music group "Nurse with Wound".
For their first few albums circa 1980, Nurse with Wound were inspired by various surrealists and other earlier noise-makers, and they (mostly Steven Stapleton) dedicated their first few albums to their inspirations. NWW's fourth album "Insect and Individual Silenced", a particularly harsh listen, was dedicated to Vian in the liner notes.
In fact, I've been looking for other work which inspired/was variously "dedicated to", by early NWW. Their first album's title "Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella" was apparently a passage taken from the Comte de Lautremont's (pen name of one Ducasse) work whose name I forget Songs of Maldoror or similar, which was supposed to have been massively influential to the literary Surrealists, Dali, and so on.
A later track's prose narration is purportedly taken from the Nobel-Prize winning Harold Pinter's "The Examination". A British nobel-prize winning author and I haven't been able to locate a single book in a shop. I'm going to go out now and try another.
>>7650123
interesting, i'm not familiar with this author at all but because of this post i will now seek some of his work out.
>>7650123
how much do you get paid?
>>7650168
Not that guy, but Nurse With Wound is internationally known and doesn't need shilling on 4chan, believe me. The group was founded in 1978 and plays a niche form of music anyway.
>>7650052
Froth on the Daydream is beautiful. It's the only book of his I've ever been able to find, down under.
Can you remember any of the titles, or the general jists?
>>7650089
came here to post this
>tfw The End of the Tour 2: Lost in Paris
Damn, I see someone beat me to this up top.
Vian is a cool cat, he introduced a lot of american jazz musicians to France, played trumpet himself and wrote funny songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjndTXyk3mw
>>7649515
I Spit on Your Graves is good.
(No connection with I Spit on Your Grave beyond it blatantly ripping off the Vian title)
