Volume 10, Issue 14 , October 2015, , Pages 215-229
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Boris Vian’s first book was written during the Second World War, however, he has not been directly influenced by it. Basically, his self-centredness prevents him from dependence on any school of thought or world view. That is why his thoughts and ideology greatly differs from authors such ...
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Boris Vian’s first book was written during the Second World War, however, he has not been directly influenced by it. Basically, his self-centredness prevents him from dependence on any school of thought or world view. That is why his thoughts and ideology greatly differs from authors such as Sartre or Camus. Sartre managed to add the element of joy to the absurdity of life through resorting to freedom, but freedom of life can not change this absurdity for Vian. To free himself from this feeling, Vian turns to man himself to reduce this suffering and pain, and to ameliorate the stance of man, to make it tolerable. Nevertheless, man can not free himself from dissatisfaction and meaninglessness of life. He therefore seeks another means to save himself from this suffering. He first pays attention to love and man, but these are not the remedies for this dissatisfaction. Then he focuses on objects and things, then to friends and lovers, but none of these is the answer for this vanity of life. Just like man who regards violence as an inseparable aspect of life, object can also be as tough and cruel. Friends and lovers too, are as vain. Death, disappointment, and failure, this is man’s fate, and he can never save himself. All thorough the novel, man’s disappointment haunts him, and subconsciously is affected by the two world wars.