Boris Vian (1920-1959) was a French polymath remembered chiefly for his novels. Those he published under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan were bizarre parodies of crime fiction that proved highly controversial on release, while the books under his own name used made-up words, subtle wordplay and surrealistic plots. Froth on the Daydream (L'Ecume des jours) is the best known of these and has been translated into English. Born in the Paris suburb of Ville d'Avray and trained as an engineer, he was also a jazz trumpeter and an influential voice on the French jazz scene, writing for jazz reviews and acting as a Paris liaison for visiting American musicians; his anti-war song Le Deserteur was widely popular.
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He continued his literary career by writing Vernon Sullivan novels, and also published poetry collections: Barnum's Digest (1948) and Cantilènes en gelée (Cantelinas in Jelly, 1949).
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