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| Title | : | Autumn in Peking |
| Author | : | Boris Vian |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 284 pages |
| Published | : | February 29th 2012 by Tamtam Books (first published 1947) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. France. Novels |
Boris Vian
Paperback | Pages: 284 pages Rating: 3.96 | 2255 Users | 90 Reviews
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Boris Vian was a jack of all trades - although unfortunately his name was Boris and "Boris of all trades" never took off as a turn of phrase. But nevertheless Vian was a great songwriter, playwright, singer, jazz critic and, of course novelist so it should have been Boris instead of Jack. Vian's 1947 novel Autumn in Peking (L'Automne a Pekin) is perhaps Vian's most slapstick work, with an added amount of despair in its exotic recipe for a violent cocktail drink.The story takes place in the imaginary desert called Exopotamie where all the leading characters take part in the building of a train station with tracks that go nowhere. Houses and buildings are destroyed to build this unnecessary structure - and in Vian's world waste not, make not.
In Alistair Rolls' pioneering study of Vian's novels, "The Flight of the Angels," he expresses that Exopotamie is a thinly disguised version of Paris, where after the war the city started changing its previous centuries of architecture to something more modern. Yes, something dull to take the place of what was exciting and mysterious.
Vian, in a mixture of great humor and unequal amount of disgust, introduces various 'eccentric' characters in this 'desert' adventure, such as Anne and Angel who are best friends; and Rochelle who is in love and sleeps with Anne, while Angel is madly in love with her.
Besides the trio there is also Doctor Mangemanche; the archeologist Athanagore Porphyroginite, his aide, Cuivre; and Pipo - all of them in a locality similar to Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, where there is a tinge of darkness and anything is possible, except for happiness.
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| Original Title: | L'Automne à Pékin |
| ISBN: | 0966234642 (ISBN13: 9780966234640) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Amadis Dudu |
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Ratings: 3.96 From 2255 Users | 90 ReviewsEvaluation About Books Autumn in Peking
Autumn in Peking Boris VianA few years ago I met a thirty something Frenchman in a youth hostel in Bariloche, Argentina and he confessed to me he had read everything by Boris Vian including many works yet to be translated into English but had read them a long time ago, during his University years, and that he hasnt revisited them since. Vian represents a period author for my French friend; specifically young adulthood. Similar to say Kurt Vonnegut, Jack Kerouac, Ayn Rand, or Hermann Hesse forAutumn in Peking Boris VianA few years ago I met a thirty something Frenchman in a youth hostel in Bariloche, Argentina and he confessed to me he had read everything by Boris Vian including many works yet to be translated into English but had read them a long time ago, during his University years, and that he hasnt revisited them since. Vian represents a period author for my French friend; specifically young adulthood. Similar to say Kurt Vonnegut, Jack Kerouac, Ayn Rand, or Hermann Hesse for
I can't explain how much I dreaded this book as I was going through its 250 pages. I should have come with a knife or a gun just in case of despair. But I kind of grew accostumed to it and I finally finished it. Again, what can I say? I suppose I didn't get what it was all about.
Although I am the publisher of this masterpiece, I still feel I can write about it - because I came upon it as a reader. I think Vian's "Autumn in Peking" is one of the great novels of French literature. it's hysterical for one thing, and on the other I find it moving in how Vian portrays his characters struggling to get the train tracks down... For what purpose?
A book titled 'L'Automne à Pékin' that, as far as I could tell, not even features one of those two substantives even once throughout the whole thing... I think that says something about this book already, but let me also mention the dazzling surrealistic desert landscape, a huge load of simply designed characters (it's easier to kill them that way) that interact between each other simply stunningly while they all work together on the arbitrary task of building a railroad who no one ever would
Is there a statue of Boris Vian somewhere? There right proper oughter be. Say I, Pook J. Arbuckle III. Boris Vian was a supreme polymath and renaissance man. Originally an engineer and learn'd man of science, he became a writer both of literature (under his own name and, more successfully whilst he was alive, the nom de guerre Vernon Sullivan) and music. Not only did he write and perform popular songs (generally of an insubordinate and irreverent nature), influencing Serge Gainsbourg and
an Excellent desert utopia!
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