French Literature Reviews - 2026

V like Vian
Other Literary Studies

Marc Lapprand

V like Vian

Read the book review published in Acta Fabula.

Les Presses de l'Université Laval/ les éditions de l'IQRC
2007
ISBN : 978-2-7637-8403-8
256 pages
20,00 €

Table of Contents:

Introduction

Afnor
Brasier
Colin
God
Ellington
Formalist
War
Humor
Incipit
Yellow
Khon
Lurettes
Masks
Water Lily
Eleven
Pantheon
Queneau
Ruptures
Surrealism
Technique
Unheimlich
Ville-d’Avrille
Wolf
Classified X
Yvonne
Zenobia

Works Cited
Acknowledgments

Boris Vian remains a distinctive figure in twentieth-century French literature, known for his eclectic output spanning novels, essays, and cultural critique. Scholarship on Vian frequently examines his playful engagement with language, formal experimentation, and the intersection of various artistic movements in postwar France.

Readers interested in twentieth-century French literature and modernist aesthetics may find this study relevant. Les Presses de l'Université Laval published the work in 2007, comprising 256 pages and featuring an alphabetical table of contents ranging from humor and surrealism to various cultural and textual references.