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Boris Vian
| Full Name: |
Boris
Vian |
| Born: |
March 10, 1920
Ville-d'Avray, Seine-et-Oise, France |
| Died: |
June 23, 1959 |
| Occupation: |
writer, poet, musician, inventor, engineer, actor, critic |
| Nationality: |
French |
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Biography
Boris Vian was a novelist, poet, jazz trumpeter, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor, and engineer. He was the emblematic figure of the postwar Paris cultural milieu: friend to Camus, de Beauvoir, and Sartre (until Sartre seduced his wife); the Parisian champion of Duke Ellington and Miles Davis; the inspiration for and mentor to Serge Gainsbourg; the French translator of Raymond Chandler. Vian, who had suffered a pulmonary edema in 1956, died of cardiac arrest in 1959, at age thirty-nine, during a screening of a Hollywood adaptation of one of his novels, outraged at the American interpretation of his novel, set in America, where he had never been. His last words were reportedly: "These guys are supposed to be American? My ass!"
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