Autograph manuscript. Zizi Jeanmaire sings Guy Béart.
Amusing handwritten note from Vian, admiring Zizi Jeanmaire's talent while listening to her record created by Guy Béart.
"Everything becomes particularly brilliant in the hands of Zizi, so to speak."
2.500€
Boris Vian (1920.1959)
Autograph manuscript. Zizi Jeanmaire sings Guy Béart.
Two quarto pages on graph paper. No place (1957).
Two binder holes in the margin, without affecting the text.
"Everything becomes particularly brilliant in the hands of Zizi, so to speak."
Amusing handwritten note from Vian, admiring Zizi Jeanmaire's talent while listening to her record created by Guy Béart.
Zizi Jeanmaire sings Guy Béart. My dictionary tells me that a "zizi" or "zitzil" is a speckled hummingbird. And Carl Sandburg, in a famous tale, told us about "zizzies," those strange little creatures that zigzag everything they touch, even railway tracks. Zizi Jeanmaire is a bit like both: she has the hummingbird's brilliance, its size, its perfection, and its plumage , and also the mischievousness of the zizzies when she sets your heart spinning with her cheeky cooing. She played a very tough game: she presented herself to the general public with a brand-new repertoire; she risked everything, she won everything. Among the most notable songs in her repertoire are those of Guy Béart; a civil engineer, which gives him a solid foundation, Béart crafts equally solid songs. But he, too, must have a certain fondness for those zizzies that zigzag with bridges and roads, and the unusual blends with the solid. " The Rope Around the Neck" is the unusual; "The Brave Girl" is the solid ; the whole thing becomes particularly brilliant in Zizi's hands, so to speak. Besides, Zizi sings with her voice and her hands, that's understood, but also with her whole body; that's why it moves you so much to hear her: you see her with your ears… that explains everything .