Œuvres romanesques complètes: II

Overview:

  • Title: Œuvres romanesques complètes: II
  • Author: Boris Vian
  • Year: 2011
  • ISBN-10: 9782070118649
  • Publisher: Gallimard
  • Pages: xxiv+1365
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Omnibus
  • Title Reference: Et on tuera tous les affreux
  • Notes:
    • Unknown printing rank; DL = December 2011; first DL in the series : September 2010; © Gallimard 2010.
    • Semi-rigid binding, pb size, as all Pléiade volumes; assimilated to hc, because of leather binding and gold tooling on spine.
    • Cover proper not illustrated; illustration from the case it always comes in.
    • Cover art credit on back of case, as "Boris Vian en 1959. Photo © Archives Cohérie Boris Vian"; uncredited photograph.
    • No price on book, nor on case.
    • Edited by Marc Lapprand, assisted by Christelle Gonzalo and Françoise Roulmann.
    • Book organized into different sections : four novels and a short story collection, Les fourmis (July 5, 1949), containing 11 stories (p. 141-290); scenarios 1949-1959; uncollected short stories 1949-1958; miscellaneous 1949-1959. Only spec-fic content entered below.
    • Each piece or group of pieces is accompanied by documentary material (press articles, early drafts, letters, unfinished projects, etc.), not entered below, except one complete spec-fic by Boris Vian : his own translation in English (possibly with some help) of "Les bons élèves", as "Honor Students" (heretofore unpublished).
    • Some novels, initially published as "translations" of works by "Vernon Sullivan", are credited to this name in this edition. Similarly, one short story is credited to "Joëlle Bausset".