Anniversary Edition jours L'écume of , 2007 and reissued in 2009 under the label Le livre de poche includes an illustrated booklet entitled L'univers Boris Vian. There, a text by Bertolt Nicole brings us precisely to the world of Vian, but especially that of the novel. readers foam on know that there is some overlap with life, not only of the author, but the atmosphere of postwar French intellectual. Nothing less, in this universe we see Jean-Paul Sartre, better known as Jean-Sol Partre next to Simone de Beauvoir, ie the Duchesse de Bovouard, talking animatedly in the café Le Procope de Saint-Germain-des Pres with Boris Vian and his wife, Michelle.
The publication will include images of:
a) The author, also called Boris Vian.
b) Your personal belongings: a typewriter, desk, credentials, records.
c) Manuscripts.
d) of hard copy.
e) Contracts for editing and tabulations Gallimard rights.
f) Posters advertising concerts and presentations.
g) Drawings.
h) Editions foam day in French and other languages.
i) The "chair pataphysical" BV invention
j) Etcetera.
Some images from the book:
(note the picture of Jean-Sol Partre up )