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Title	:	Autumn in Peking
Author	:	Boris Vian
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 284 pages
Published	:	February 29th 2012 by Tamtam Books (first published 1947)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. France. Novels

Autumn in Peking

Boris Vian

Paperback | Pages: 284 pages

Rating: 3.96 | 2255 Users | 90 Reviews

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Boris Vian was a jack of all trades - although unfortunately his name was Boris and "Boris of all trades" never took off as a turn of phrase. But nevertheless Vian was a great songwriter, playwright, singer, jazz critic and, of course novelist so it should have been Boris instead of Jack. Vian's 1947 novel Autumn in Peking (L'Automne a Pekin) is perhaps Vian's most slapstick work, with an added amount of despair in its exotic recipe for a violent cocktail drink.

The story takes place in the imaginary desert called Exopotamie where all the leading characters take part in the building of a train station with tracks that go nowhere. Houses and buildings are destroyed to build this unnecessary structure - and in Vian's world waste not, make not. In Alistair Rolls' pioneering study of Vian's novels, "The Flight of the Angels," he expresses that Exopotamie is a thinly disguised version of Paris, where after the war the city started changing its previous centuries of architecture to something more modern. Yes, something dull to take the place of what was exciting and mysterious.

Vian, in a mixture of great humor and unequal amount of disgust, introduces various 'eccentric' characters in this 'desert' adventure, such as Anne and Angel who are best friends; and Rochelle who is in love and sleeps with Anne, while Angel is madly in love with her.

Besides the trio there is also Doctor Mangemanche; the archeologist Athanagore Porphyroginite, his aide, Cuivre; and Pipo - all of them in a locality similar to Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, where there is a tinge of darkness and anything is possible, except for happiness.

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Original Title:	L'Automne à Pékin
ISBN:	0966234642 (ISBN13: 9780966234640)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Amadis Dudu

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Is there a statue of Boris Vian somewhere? There right proper oughter be. Say I, Pook J. Arbuckle III. Boris Vian was a supreme polymath and renaissance man. Originally an engineer and learn'd man of science, he became a writer both of literature (under his own name and, more successfully whilst he was alive, the nom de guerre Vernon Sullivan) and music. Not only did he write and perform popular songs (generally of an insubordinate and irreverent nature), influencing Serge Gainsbourg and

Boris Vian is not a predictable author. I loved Heartsnatcher, barely tolerated Foam of the Daze and I Spit on Your Graves was not intended to be a vehicle for his talents. For the first sixty odd pages of Autumn in Peking (a title with absolutely no bearing on the contents of the book), I was fairly convinced that Id embarked on another nonsense festival that probably holds together better when all of the (supposedly brilliant) wordplay of the author has not been killed or made wooden by

Romantic and sarcastic at the same time but wildly beautiful with exotic word play. Something like "electricity was dripping from the wire". Somewhat overloaded text, which makes it hard to read.

I can't explain how much I dreaded this book as I was going through its 250 pages. I should have come with a knife or a gun just in case of despair. But I kind of grew accostumed to it and I finally finished it. Again, what can I say? I suppose I didn't get what it was all about.

The story such as it is, is pretty basic, kind of like a play you know? Group of people in the desert. Bit of Kafka here and there but not too much.Some humour, plenty of vulgarity. It is surreal but most of that is confined to the first quarter. I don't do well with surreal but in this case a lot of it was inanimate objects described like animate creatures, which is the very essence of most animation so i just pretended those parts where a cartoon :) .The delivery of the dialogue can be quite

an Excellent desert utopia!

(French version, titled l'Automne à Pékin)The fact that Boris Vian wrote this book the same year he wrote l'Écume de Jours probably didn't help in its promotion. Which is a shame really as it is equally well-written and interesting in its literary madness. Beginning with its misleading title (nowhere is Peking nor autumn mentioned in the book), the story continue in the spirit of l'Écume (or is it preceding it?), combining apparent naivety or simplicity of the characters with a layer of