Le Déserteur

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1920-2020, Centenary of the birth of BORIS VIAN. This year we celebrate a writer, poet, lyricist, jazz musician, singer, music critic and French artistic director: BORIS VIAN. An emblematic figure of the great years of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, passionate about jazz, he frequented the greatest American jazzmen passing through.?
Boris Vian is the originator of many standards such as 'Le déserteur', 'La java des bombes atomiques', 'On n'est pas là pour se faire engueuler ', 'J'suis snob' sung by several generations of artists, from Juliette Gréco to Olivia Ruiz via Montand, Reggiani, Mouloudji and many others. He was also artistic director at Philips where he collaborated among others with Henri Salvador, Serge Gainsbourg. ?An engineer trained at the Ecole Centrale, he is the author among others of three major novels: "J'irais cracher sur vos tombes", "L'Arrache-cour" and "L'Ecume des jours".