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[NABOKOV-L] Boris Vian and Nabokovian wordplay
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Stan K-Bootle [to A.S]: All of us bright young Brit Commies in the 50s knew of Boris Vian mainly (solely?) through his then-popular, anti-war, draft-burning song, Le
Déserteur...Reading reports of Vian¹s Nabokovian wordplay a few years ago, I tried to order his surreal novel L'Écume des jours (1947) ...The anagrammatic coincidence you offer is unlikely to play a plausible role in resolving these factual probabilities.
JM: A naboko/vian wordplay? Boris V., himself, wrote under different pseudonyms: "Bison Ravi," an obvious anagram of his name, "Hugo Hachebuisson" and the most famous one, "Vernon Sullivan" (he introduced him to French readers as an American writer, whose work he translated). Sullivan's l947 best-selling wildly outrageous novel was "J'Irais Cracher Sur Vos Tombes." He was a close friend of Raymond Queneau ( a writer Nabokov admired & I must re-check it in SO to be sure), and an illustrious member of the "École de Pataphysique." There are tenuous, but actual, links to Nabokov (black commedy, anagrams, playful hoaxes).
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Déserteur...Reading reports of Vian¹s Nabokovian wordplay a few years ago, I tried to order his surreal novel L'Écume des jours (1947) ...The anagrammatic coincidence you offer is unlikely to play a plausible role in resolving these factual probabilities.
JM: A naboko/vian wordplay? Boris V., himself, wrote under different pseudonyms: "Bison Ravi," an obvious anagram of his name, "Hugo Hachebuisson" and the most famous one, "Vernon Sullivan" (he introduced him to French readers as an American writer, whose work he translated). Sullivan's l947 best-selling wildly outrageous novel was "J'Irais Cracher Sur Vos Tombes." He was a close friend of Raymond Queneau ( a writer Nabokov admired & I must re-check it in SO to be sure), and an illustrious member of the "École de Pataphysique." There are tenuous, but actual, links to Nabokov (black commedy, anagrams, playful hoaxes).
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