- Title
- Introduction: Boris Vian, polymathe centenaire et intemporel
- Creator
- Andréo, Benjamin; Rolls, Alistair; Sitbon, Clara; Vuaille-Barcan, Marie-Laure
- Relation
- Boris Vian : l'adaptateur adapté p. 9-22
- Relation
- https://www-editions--hermann-fr.translate.goog/livre/9791037001467?_x_tr_sl=fr&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc
- Publisher
- Hermann
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- Boris Vian is a household name, whether it is as an author, jazz musician, 'pataphysician or singer. And yet, since the famous conference held in Cerisy in 1976 and the publication of his complete fictional works in Gallimard's prestigious La Pléiade collection in 2010, academic studies have tended on the whole to break Vian's work down along generic lines, where his entire approach to everything he did sought to break down taxonomical boundaries. Furthermore, since Vian was so multi-talented and focused on projects at the intersection of so many artistic, scientific and practical domains, his life has taken on an even greater significance than is the case for other prolific authors, to such an extent, indeed, that biographical criticism has come to dominate Vian scholarship, irrespective of the particular genre under scrutiny. This book seeks to break free of these unspoken rules and to adopt new perspectives to encompass, but also to tease out the intersections within, Vian's work. The contributors to the volume, who come from different disciplinary backgrounds, each with their own methodologies, have taken an interdisciplinary approach so as to demonstrate the transmediality of which Vian's life project was exemplary. In so doing, this book proposes an innovative approach that will enable readers to revisit one of France's most multi-faceted authors. The individual chapters cover, inter alia, Michel Gondry's film L'Écume des jours (2013, Mood Indigo), graphic novel adaptations and overlooked connections such as with the authors collectively known as the Hussards. Finally, the volume is dedicated to the late Nick Hewitt, Emeritus Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Nottingham (UK), whose own chapter is published posthumously.
- Subject
- Boris Vian; Écume des jours; intermediality; biographical criticism
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1482657
- Identifier
- uon:50993
- Identifier
- ISBN:9791037001467
- Language
- fre
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