Family Values: Decoding Boris Vian's Les Bâtisseurs d'empire
Although the full intricacy of his accomplishment has not yet been recognized, Vian interweaves three codes in this play: the absurdist, the anti-colonial, and the psychoanalytical. A bourgeois family periodically retreats from a terrifying noise, moving upstairs into a series of ever-smaller apartm...
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| Language: | English |
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New Prairie Press
1997-06-01
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| Series: | Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature |
| Online Access: | http://newprairiepress.org/sttcl/vol21/iss2/6 |