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  • Bibliography:
    13 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1992
  • Latest Book:
    June 2024
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Book List in Order: 13 titles



  • "[Blues for a Black Cat] brings back the nimble Vian in a collection of his short fiction, initially published as Les Fourmis in 1949. The work has the unmistakable flavor of the time and place, Claude Abadie's jazz band, the coded and absu...



  • Published in Paris in 1946 as a hardboiled thriller loaded with sex and blood, allegedly censored in the US and 'translated' into French - I Spit On Your Graves was both a pure mystification, and direct home to, American literature and movies, from a...



  • " This collection] displays Vian's range from gallows humor to verbal fireworks, and happily serves to give visibility to this important writer."- Publishers Weekly. "Ultimately, Blues for a Black Cat is a collection of moral fables, albeit fables to...



  • Set in a bizarre and slightly sinister town where the elderly are auctioned off at an Old Folks Fair, the townspeople assail the priest in hopes of making it rain, and the official town scapegoat bears the shame of the citizens by fishing junk out of...



  • Raymond Queneau called it the “most poignant love story of our time,” and Julio Cortázar said of its author: “I can’t think of another writer who can move me as surreptitiously as Vian does.” Boris Vian (1920"1959) was a songwriter, trum...



  • Autumn in Peking takes place in an imaginary desert called Exopotamie, where a train station and a railway line are under construction. Homes are destroyed to lay the lines, which turn out to lead nowhere. In part a satire on the reconstruction of po...



  • Vian’s second noir novel under the Vernon Sullivan pseudonym is a brutal tale of racism in postwar New York City, as protagonist Daniel Parker is blackmailed by a long lost brother. Also included is the short story “Dogs, Desire and Death,” and...




  • Boris Vian (1920-1959) was a magnificent jack-of-all-trades--actor, jazz critic, engineer, musician, playwright, songwriter, translator--not to mention the leading social light of the Saint-Germain-des-Prés scene. His third major novel, "Red Grass "...






  • The basis of the new major movie from Michel Gondry, starring Audrey Tautou, the beloved French modern classic hailed as "the most poignant love story of our time" by Raymond Queneau The story is simple: Boy meets girl; boy marries girl; girl fall...



  • A wide ranging compendium of short stories, poems, and miscellaneous writings of Boris Vian. Edited and translated by Julia Older whose last book of Vian's prose (Blues for a Black Cat and Other Stories) was praised widely for capturing V...



  • A nonconformist satire of both bureaucracy and nonconformism from the French polymath and author of Foam of the DaysWritten at the age of 23 for his friends in the winter of 1943–44, Vercoquin and the Plankton was the first of Vian’s nove...



  • A rollicking adventure caper satirizing the soon-to-be ubiquitous aspects of spy sagas First published posthumously in 1966, Trouble in the Swaths was written by Boris Vian for a small audience of family and friends during the Nazi Occupation of Pari...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Boris Vian has published 13 books.

The next book by Boris Vian, Trouble in the Swaths, will be published in June 2024.

The first book by Boris Vian, Blues for a Black Cat and Other Stories, was published in January 1992.

No. Boris Vian does not write books in series.