Boris VIAN - Autograph manuscript. Zizi Jeanmaire sings Guy Béart.

Boris VIAN (1920.1959)

Autograph manuscript. Zizi Jeanmaire sings Guy Béart.

Two pages in-4° on squared paper. Slnd (1957).

Two binder holes in the margin, without affecting the text.

“The whole thing becomes particularly brilliant in the hands, so to speak, of Zizi. »

Amusing manuscript by Vian, admiring the talent of Zizi Jeanmaire listening to his record created by Guy Béart.

Zizi Jeanmaire sings Guy Béart. My dictionary told me, the “zizi” or “zitzil” is a spotted hummingbird. And Carl Sandburg, in a famous tale, told us about "zizzies", these strange little creatures that zigzag everything they touch, even railway tracks. Zizi Jeanmaire has both: she has the brilliance of the hummingbird, her dimensions, her perfection and her plumage , and then also the malice of the zizzies when she puts your heart in a spin with her naughty coos. She played a very tough game: she presented herself in front of the general public with a brand new singing trick; she risked everything, she won everything. Among the most noted songs in his repertoire are those of Guy Béart; engineer of Bridges and Roads, which gives him a solid foundation, Béart constructs equally solid songs; but he must have a certain taste, too, for the zizzies that zigzag with the bridges and the roads, and the unusual mixes with the solid. The Rope on the Neck is the unusual; the Brave girl is the solid one ; everything becomes particularly brilliant in the hands, so to speak, of Zizi. Moreover, Zizi sings with her voice and her hands, of course, but also with her whole body; that's why it moves you like that to hear it: you see it with your ears... that explains everything. »