Œuvres romanesques complètes: II
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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Vian : his own translation in English (possibly with some help) of "Les bons élèves", as "Honor Students" (heretofore unpublished).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".