“There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly. ”
Boris Vian was born on March 10, 1920 in France. In the early 1930s he studied in Sevrier and Versailles and later in the Condorse in Paris. Since then, he has been fascinated by literature. He followed in the Ecol satral in 1939, but at the beginning of the Second World War he was more interested in public events than in his education. He started playing trumpet in the band he created and his friends, collaborated with the Hot Jazz magazine, and in 1942 he was a graduate engineer. In 1945, under the influence of friends like Jean-Paul Sartre, Alber Camus Jacques Prever, and Jean Cocteau, he began to engage in more in-depth literature. In the postwar years he published several works under the pseudonym Vernan Sullivan. This is how the novels "I will spit on your graves", "The dead have the same skin", "Later on, the novels "Autumn in Beijing" and "The Foam of the Days" appeared. Following are publications of collections of stories and the two most significant novels - "Red Grass" and "Hearts for Retraction". In the late 1950s, Boris Vian performed numerous concert tours all over France and abroad. After a period of bitterness over the scandals surrounding some literary works, Vian was back in activity again at the end of his life. He is in the cinema, writes plays, film scenarios, journalism. Died June 23, 1959