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02974aam a2200409 i 4500 001 06C3BBB0C48911EDAC2163E35EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230317010022 008 220713t20222022mau 000 f eng d 020 $a 1939663822 020 $a 9781939663825 035 $a (OCoLC)1338027846 040 $a TOH $b eng $e rda $c TOH $d NYP $d BDX $d OCLCF $d KLG $d NUI $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h fre 050 4 $a PQ2643.I152 $b V4 2022 050 4 $a PQ2643.I152 $b V413 2022 082 04 $a 843/.914 $2 23 100 1 $a Vian, Boris, $d 1920-1959, $e author. 240 10 $a Vercoquin et le plancton. $l English 245 10 $a Vercoquin and the plankton / $c Boris Vian ; translated by Terry Bradford. 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts : $b Wakefield Press, $c [2022]. 300 $a xxvi,175 pages ; $c 21 cm 520 $a "Written for his friends in the winter of 1943-44, when he was only 23. Vercoquin and the Plankton was the first of Boris Vian's novels to be published under his own name. Published in 1947, the book came out two months after his succès de scandale under the nom de pllume of the fictitious American author Vernon Sullivan. I Will Spit on Your Graves ( a novel banned in France from 1953-1973 and for which Vian narrowly escaped a prison sentence), and two months before the publication of his beloved classic The Foam of the Days. At once social documentary, scathing satire and jazz manifesto, Vercoquin and the Plankton describes the collision of two worlds under the Vichy regime: that of the youthful dandyism of the ever-partying Zazous and the murderously maniacal bureaucracy of a governmental office for standardization. In this roman à clef drawn from Vian's own contradictory lives as a jazz musician on the Left Bank and an engineer at the French National Organization for Standardization, the reader is introduced to a handful of characters inhabiting a world lying somewhere between Occupied Paris and Looney Tunes: Jacques Lustalot (a.k.a. The Major), Antioch TambreÌtambre, and Fromental de Vercoquin, whose competing romantic interests in the swing-dancing Zizanie de la Houspignole culminate in a misguided attempt at standardizing surprise parties. A nonconformist satire of bureaucracy and nonconformism."-- $c Back cover 500 $a "Originally published as Vercoquin et le plancton in 1947."--Title page verso 648 7 $a 1940-1945 $2 fast 650 0 $a Dandies $z France $v Fiction. 650 7 $a Dandies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00887611 651 0 $a France $x History $y German occupation, 1940-1945 $v Fiction. 651 7 $a France. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204289 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423787 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 655 7 $a Humorous fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01726649 655 7 $a Humorous fiction. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Bradford, Terry, $e translator. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117030932.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=06C3BBB0C48911EDAC2163E35EECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search