Vian was born in 1920 into an upper middle-class family in the wealthy Parisian suburb of Ville d'Avray ( Hauts-de-Seine).

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Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section. This section needs additional citations for verification. His own music and songs enjoyed popularity during his lifetime, particularly the anti-war song ' Le Déserteur' (The Deserter). He served as liaison for Hoagy Carmichael, Duke Ellington and Miles Davis in Paris, wrote for several French jazz-reviews ( Le Jazz Hot, Paris Jazz) and published numerous articles dealing with jazz both in the United States and in France. Vian was an important influence on the French jazz scene. His novel Froth on the Daydream ( L'Écume des jours) is the best known of these works and one of the few translated into English.

Vian's other fiction, published under his real name, featured a highly individual writing style with numerous made-up words, subtle wordplay and surrealistic plots. Those published under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan were bizarre parodies of criminal fiction, highly controversial at the time of their release due to their unconventional outlook. Novelist, poet, playwright, journalist, engineer, musician, songwriter, singerīoris Vian ( French: 10 March 1920 – 23 June 1959) was a French polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor and engineer who is primarily remembered for his novels. Chick and Colin's money woes force them to sacrifice their carefree lives to soul-crushing work, and even the suicidal mice wear themselves out trying to restore the lustre to the kitchen tiles.Vernon Sullivan, Bison Ravi, Baron Visi, Brisavion Chick squanders his share of Colin's money on rare editions of Jean Pulse Heartre, and Alyssum decides her only recourse is to murder the philosopher whose books are ruining her husband. Typically generous, Colin gives a quarter of his fortune to his best friend Chick so he can marry Chloe's friend Alyssum.īut a lily grows in Chloe's lung, and Colin must spend his remaining fortune on the only available treatment: surrounding her daily with fresh flowers. The instant he sees Chloe, bass drums thump inside his shirt, and soon the two are married.

Colin is a wealthy young aristocrat, a slim, innocent creature who loves easily. The world of Mood Indigo is a stained-glass cartoon kind of a place, where the piano dispenses cocktails, the kitchen mice dance to the sound of sunbeams, and the air is three parts jazz.

Mood indigo by boris vian