https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Index en-au 5 https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:40954 Wed 20 Jul 2022 15:36:14 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:16021 Wed 17 Dec 2014 15:09:10 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:15900 Wed 11 Apr 2018 11:43:12 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:6789 Wed 11 Apr 2018 11:09:00 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:14501 Wed 11 Apr 2018 10:59:28 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:6793 Wed 11 Apr 2018 10:51:00 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:28685 Je voudrais pas crever for the volume of his collected poetry — it was published posthumously in 1962 — it is a title that most fittingly captures the core premise of the book. Je voudrais pas crever (I wouldn’t wanna die) encompasses, firstly, the two great contrasts in Vian’s all too short existence: his passion for life and the memento mori with which he lived and which permeates this little volume of poetry. I say “little” because the book is small: the French 1972 edition contains only twenty-three poems, and in addition some writings on the Collège de ’Pataphysique, not included here. Little, also, because it appears, deceptively, to be a light read. Certainly, it is easy to be fooled by Vian’s playfulness and jocularity, by his pun and word play, and by his own reiterated assertions that he is “no great poet”. But Vian’s work is anything but slight. The complexities at play are manifold and full of contrasts: his boyish charm, childishness and penchant for vulgarity coexist with a genuine despair and with that other side of childishness that is marked by sincerity — a way of looking at the world with awe and through the lens of a wonderful imagination.]]> Tue 26 Feb 2019 13:28:33 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:15519 Tue 24 Aug 2021 14:35:35 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:18424 Thu 25 Jun 2015 12:24:19 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:17813 Thu 18 Jun 2015 17:30:49 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:17811 Thu 18 Jun 2015 17:30:23 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:17657 Thu 18 Jun 2015 15:44:55 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:6795 Sat 24 Mar 2018 07:46:37 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:6728 Sat 24 Mar 2018 07:46:03 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:44916 Mon 24 Oct 2022 16:38:31 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:40736 Mon 18 Jul 2022 12:58:24 AEST ]]>