Fairy tale with the use of the average people

Fairy tale with the use of the average people is a Romance of the French writer Boris Vian. Going back to 1943, it is an early work (the author was 23 years old). She knows two versions, all the two unfinished ones. This novel is undoubtedly one of the least known of the author.

History

This Fairy tale with the use of the average people reports the Odyssée of a prince accompanied by his palfrey which leaves to research sugar, rare food product.
In its search it will cross magic creatures and mild nutters, and will have to live situations where the absurdity is omnipresent. Vian amuses and has fun, making puns, winks with the reader, turning in derision and absurdity all the history.

An early work

Playing with the words, employing a light style, the author transmits to this work all his freshness and his humor, characteristic of his score of years of alors.
The context of the creation of this Fairy tale to the use of the average people is however less light. Indeed, Boris Vian writing for its wife of the time, Michelle, who is in convalescence. He wants to thus make him spend time more easily and transmit the good mood of the book to him.

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