Daily Almanac for
Oct 14, 2008
Search White Pages
Info search tips
Bio search tips

Encyclopedia

Vian, Boris

Vian, Boris (bôrēs' vyäN) [key], 192059, French novelist. He patterned his literary style on that of terse American crime fiction. His best-known work is J'irai cracher sur vos tombes [I will spit on your graves] (1946), a novel about a fugitive black man hunted by whites. Other novels include L'arrache-cœur (1953; tr. Heartsnatcher, 1968) and Les bâtisseurs d'empire (1959; tr. The Empire Builders, 1967).

See biography by A. Cismaru (1974).

The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2007, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.

    • Cite
    • Print
    • Bookmark

More on Boris Vian from Infoplease:

See more Encyclopedia articles on: French Literature: Biographies


Warning: DOMDocument::loadXML(): Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding ! Bytes: 0xE9 0x73 0x5D 0x5D in Entity, line: 1 in /site/html/include/elibrary_search_box.php on line 284
Premium Partner Content
HighBeam Research
Documents Images and Maps Reference
(from Newspapers, Magazines, Journals, Newswires, Transcripts and Books)

Research our extensive archive of more than 28 million documents from 2,600 sources.

Additional search results provided by HighBeam Research, LLC. © Copyright 2005. All rights reserved.