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Heartsnatcher

By: Boris Vian

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Boris Vian s early death robbed French literature of a novelist who was coherent while still modern. Heartsnatcher is an esoteric, surrealistic comedy about guilt, set in a deceptively familiar, almost ordinary locale. New Statesman

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Dalkey Archive Press

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1564782999

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9781564782991

Jazz in Paris

By: Boris Vian

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Jazz in Paris

By: Boris Vian

En 1948, Boris Vian est choisi par une radio de New York pour présenter aux auditeurs " amerlauds " le jazz tel qu'il se crée à Paris depuis les années trente. Pendant près de deux ans, il prend plaisir à enchaîner les disques des jazzmen français ou des groupes franco-américains enregistrés en France. Il le fait dans un anglais bien à lui, avec son élan habituel _ variations comiques et stylistiques, jeux de mots bilingues, fantaisie et humour _, mais aussi avec le sérieux du connaisseur pédagogue. Voici donc en édition bilingue un (ultime?) complément indispensable aux quelque 1 200 pages de chroniques de jazz déjà publiées du vice-président du Hot Club de Paris. Il se révèle toujours, même dans des textes d'une forme convenue, un instructeur aimable et un écrivain brillamment original que chaque titre de jazz peut faire glisser vers les régions fécondes de l'imaginaire. Gilbert Pestureau

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Fayard/Pauvert

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2720216399

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9782720216398

Mood Indigo

A Novel

By: Boris Vian

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Mood Indigo

A Novel

By: Boris Vian

Presents a story in which a husband must try to keep his ill wife alive by constantly surrounding her with fresh flowers.

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Macmillan

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0374534225

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9780374534226

Cent sonnets

By: Boris Vian

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Cent sonnets

By: Boris Vian

Sans doute composés entre 1939 et 1943, ces poèmes sont la première œuvre de Boris Vian. Il devait beaucoup plus tard les reprendre, corrigeant ou supprimant certaines pièces, preuve de l’importance qu’il leur attachait. Impertinence, humour, sens de la dérision et du pastiche: tels sont les traits les plus caractéristiques de ce poète de vingt ans. Et aussi un goût immodéré pour la rime, le calembour, le jeu verbal et prosodique – où se profile déjà le futur auteur de chansons. Par-delà les tristesses et les émotions intérieures d’un jeune écrivain décidément surdoué, on perçoit en bien des pages les hardiesses et les amusements d’un Boris Vian résolument décidé à vivre.

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Le Livre de Poche

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2253168483

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9782253168485

Je Voudrais Pas Crever

By: Boris Vian

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Je Voudrais Pas Crever

By: Boris Vian

Des poèmes, écrits en 1951 et 1952, où Boris Vian parle sur un mode intime et douloureux, proche de la confession, de son angoisse de la mort, de ses doutes sur la vie et sur lui-même. Le recueil est suivi de quatre lettres au Collège de Pataphysique, où il joue sur les mots et les proverbes et se livre à un exercice de style où l'humour rivalise avec l'absurde.

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LGF/Le Livre de Poche

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225314133X

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Mood Indigo

A Novel

By: Boris Vian

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Mood Indigo

A Novel

By: Boris Vian

Presents a story in which a husband must try to keep his ill wife alive by constantly surrounding her with fresh flowers.

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Macmillan

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I Spit on Your Graves

By: Boris Vian

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I Spit on Your Graves

By: Boris Vian

Fiction. "In the tradition of Karl May and Franz Kafka, Boris Vian imagines an American even more amazing that the land he has never visited. "I Spit on Your Graves" is the first novel to put the quotation marks around the "hardboiled" thriller -- a vivid and startling performance" (J. Hoberman). The book is Boris Vian's (1920-1959) sex-and-violence-filled homage to American noir. Originally published in France as J'rai Cracher Sur Vos Tombes -- after allegedly being censored in the U.S. and "translated" into French -- the novel was no best seller, establishing Vian as one of the most famous writers of the mid-twentieth century.

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TamTam Books

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096623460X

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9780966234602

Foam of the Daze

By: Boris Vian

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Foam of the Daze

By: Boris Vian

Fiction. Translated from the French by Brian Harper. "FOAM OF THE DAZE is a novel like no other, a sexy, innocent, smart and sweet cartoon of a world which then begins, little by little, to bleed real blood until, in the end, the blood turns out to be our own. I read it nearly thirty years ago in its previous incarnation as Mood Indigo and I loved it then; it's still one of my favorite books in the whole world"--Jim Krusoe. "A kind of jazzy, cheerful, sexy, sci-fi mid-20th century Huysmans. Check it out. There is just no place like France"--Richard Hell.

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TamTam Books

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0966234634

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9780966234633

Blues for a Black Cat and Other Stories

By: Boris Vian

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Blues for a Black Cat and Other Stories

By: Boris Vian

[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 absurdist messages of rebellion, the wistful fables, verbal riffs and goofy anarchic encounters; the mise-en-scene includes an expiring jazzman who sells his sweat, a cat with a British accent and a piano that mixes a cocktail when "Mood Indigo" is played."--Boston Globe

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496215133

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9781496215130

Heartsnatcher

By: Boris Vian

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Heartsnatcher

By: Boris Vian

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Foam of the Daze

By: Boris Vian

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Foam of the Daze

By: Boris Vian

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Cerebral Angiography

Normal Anatomy and Vascular Pathology

By: Gianni Boris Bradac

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Cerebral Angiography

Normal Anatomy and Vascular Pathology

By: Gianni Boris Bradac

Cerebral Angiography is a comprehensive and well-illustrated guide to the diagnostic use of cerebral angiography. The first part of the book depicts in detail the normal appearance of the cerebral vessels on angiographic studies. Sound knowledge of this normal vascular anatomy and clinical function is vital for correct interpretation of the clinical significance of the pathological processes addressed in the second part of the book. The latter include vascular abnormalities, including angiomas, fistulas, and aneurysms; atherosclerotic and non-atherosclerotic stenosis and occlusion of the cerebral vessels; and venous thrombosis. In each case, both typical and atypical appearances are presented. While the emphasis throughout is on the diagnostic value of cerebral angiography, a number of examples of endovascular treatment are also included to highlight the evolving possibilities of therapy and the role of cerebral angiography in treatment selection.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642156789

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Allusion and Allegory

Studies in the >Ciris

By: Boris Kayachev

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Allusion and Allegory

Studies in the >Ciris

By: Boris Kayachev

The Ciris has received a certain amount of scholarly attention during the twentieth century, but on the whole has failed to meet with an adequate appreciation. This book aims to vindicate the Ciris, mainly by exploring its use of pre-Virgilian poetic texts largely ignored in previous scholarship. The core of the book consists of a discursive literary commentary, divided into chapters that examine consecutively the poem's main narrative units. Viewing allusion and allegory as intrinsic features of poetic composition rather than mere artistic devices, the book explores, among more prominent intertexts, Apollonius' Argonautica and Callimachus' Hecale, Lucretius and Catullus 64. Allusions are also suggested to Homer and Empedocles, Theocritus, Moschus, and Bion, Nicander and Euphorion, Choerilus of Samos and Asius of Samos, Ennius and Cicero. Through its intricate web of references to poetic intertexts, the Ciris, it is argued, creates an implicit allegorical pattern with an original poetological message. Allusion and Allegory is thus the first book-length study to offer a coherent literary interpretation of this controversial poem.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110447126

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9783110447125

To Hell with the Ugly

By: Boris Vian

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To Hell with the Ugly

By: Boris Vian

A fascinating hybrid of noir action, cheap science fiction, and hard sex in a dream land called Los Angeles. Boris Vian had never been to Los Angeles, but that didn't stop him from writing the most bizarre sexual sci-fi novel ever set there. To Hell With the Ugly is one of the first novels to take on the issue of cloning, for the sole purpose of beauty- the elimination of all ugly people, to be replaced by beautiful clones. A new English translation of the 1948 French masterpiece!

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0966234669

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Essays on Vedic and Indo-European Culture

By: Boris Oguibénine

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Essays on Vedic and Indo-European Culture

By: Boris Oguibénine

This book is about the cultural and religious patterns as these may be reconstructed on a twofold basis: Vedic poets views as known from the Rgveda and some old Indo-European literary sources examined in a comparative perspective. In its main bulk offers a novel approach to the Vedic theory of sacrifice from the point of view of the Vedic priest as an individual social type whose doing was conditioned by the conflict between the groups practising sacrifice as well as the tension between the patron of the sacrifice and the officiant. It also envisages the integration of the warrior into the sacrificial ritual and suggests a solution to the problem of the daksina (commonly called sacrificial priest`s salary) interpreted as a materialisation of the relation between the priest, the gods invoked and the patrons of sacrifice, the daksina`s function being to denote the value of the poetic word in the prayer.The book tackles also some particular issues in Vedic and Indo-European religions: the typology of the warrior, the `cooking` of the poetic word linked to the double-entendre in Vedic poetry designed as a means to solve the problem of the relative importance of the speech within sacrificial ritual and of the food offerings to the gods; the early origins of the yogic practice in Vedic times related to some Indo-European practices as disclosed in Avestan, Hittite and Latin texts.

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Motilal Banarsidass Publishe

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8120814991

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9788120814998

Applied Cerebral Angiography

Normal Anatomy and Vascular Pathology

By: Gianni Boris Bradac

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Applied Cerebral Angiography

Normal Anatomy and Vascular Pathology

By: Gianni Boris Bradac

This book offers detailed guidance on the diagnostic use of cerebral angiography based on precise description of the angiographic appearances of normal anatomy and pathological conditions. In this third edition, every chapter has been thoroughly revised and enlarged to reflect new knowledge and experiences, and more attention is paid to the correlations between anatomopathological findings and clinical manifestations. Beyond explaining the diagnostic value of cerebral angiography, a key aim is to equip readers with the precise knowledge of the anatomy of cerebral vessels required for optimal application of endovascular therapy of pathologies involving the arteries and veins of the brain. As in preceding editions, the book is divided into two parts. The first part describes the normal anatomy, with attention to morphological aspects, embryological development, function, and vascular territories. The intraorbital and extracranial vascularization is also fully considered. The knowledge provided will serve as a sound basis for the correct interpretation of pathological processes and their clinical significance, as covered in depth in the second part of the book.

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Springer

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3319572288

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9783319572284

Farewell Perestroika

A Soviet Chronicle

By: Boris Kagarlitsky

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Farewell Perestroika

A Soviet Chronicle

By: Boris Kagarlitsky

In this dramatic, month-by-month chronicle of a tumultuous period, Boris Kagarlitsky bears witness to the eruption of open political discussion in the Soviet Union during the 'hot summer' of 1988.

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0860915085

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9780860915089

Lectures on Probability Theory and Statistics

Ecole d'Eté de Probabilités de Saint-Flour XXXII - 2002

By: Boris Tsirelson,Wendelin Werner

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Lectures on Probability Theory and Statistics

Ecole d'Eté de Probabilités de Saint-Flour XXXII - 2002

By: Boris Tsirelson,Wendelin Werner

This is yet another indispensable volume for all probabilists and collectors of the Saint-Flour series, and is also of great interest for mathematical physicists. It contains two of the three lecture courses given at the 32nd Probability Summer School in Saint-Flour (July 7-24, 2002). Tsirelson's lectures introduce the notion of nonclassical noise produced by very nonlinear functions of many independent random variables, for instance singular stochastic flows or oriented percolation. Werner's contribution gives a survey of results on conformal invariance, scaling limits and properties of some two-dimensional random curves. It provides a definition and properties of the Schramm-Loewner evolutions, computations (probabilities, critical exponents), the relation with critical exponents of planar Brownian motions, planar self-avoiding walks, critical percolation, loop-erased random walks and uniform spanning trees.

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3540399828

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Elliptic Theory on Singular Manifolds

By: Vladimir E. Nazaikinskii,Anton Yu. Savin,Bert-Wolfgang Schulze,Boris Yu. Sternin

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Elliptic Theory on Singular Manifolds

By: Vladimir E. Nazaikinskii,Anton Yu. Savin,Bert-Wolfgang Schulze,Boris Yu. Sternin

The analysis and topology of elliptic operators on manifolds with singularities are much more complicated than in the smooth case and require completely new mathematical notions and theories. While there has recently been much progress in the field, many of these results have remained scattered in journals and preprints. Starting from an ele

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CRC Press

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1420034979

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9781420034974

Le goûter des généraux

suivi de Le dernier des métiers et de Le chasseur français

By: Boris Vian

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Le goûter des généraux

suivi de Le dernier des métiers et de Le chasseur français

By: Boris Vian

La guerre : c'est une nouvelle fois le thème de ce Goûter des généraux, l'une des œuvres les plus corrosives - les plus abouties - que nous ait laissées l'auteur du Déserteur et de L'Equarrissage pour tous. Une guerre contre les plus faibles, bien sûr, cyniquement décidée par les politiques, afin de faire oublier leurs échecs et leur médiocrité... Une guerre qui ne fait pas du tout l'affaire du général de La Pétardière-Frenouillou, lequel préfère organiser des goûters chez sa maman avec ses petits camarades ! rien de démonstratif, en effet, chez Boris Vian : pas d'autres armes que celle d'un humour débridé, imprévisible, libérateur. Cette pièce, écrite en 1951, fut représentée pour la première fois en 1964, en Allemagne... puis en France, en 1965. Ce même rire est à l'œuvre dans Le Dernier des métiers, où un autre pouvoir est mis sur la sellette à travers l'inoubliable Père Saureilles, prédicateur mondain, véritable star du showbiz religieux, et dans l'étonnant Chasseur français, comédie musicale des plus grinçantes, où l'on suivra, entre autres, les tribulations de la marquise de Piripin, trop éprise de petites annonces, de rencontres coquines et de Série noire... Un feu d'artifice de trouvailles, d'inépuisable invention verbale et théâtrale.

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