In his short life, Boris Vian managed to be an engineer, inventor, musician, critic, poet, novelist, playwright, screenwriter, translator, journalist and reader. He played the trombone, sang and composed songs (more than four hundred of them in total). The time was allotted to just a few seconds. Vian was born early and lived quickly. Vian was too young. The world was too old. Today his work organically fits into the general context of the 20th century. Vian is recognized as a classic of intellectual kitsch, a prominent representative of the post-war French avant-garde. Under the pseudonym Verna Sullivan, made up of the names of Vian's friends in the jazz orchestra (according to legend, Sullivan is a writer from Chicago, a mulatto living in Paris), Vian published four novels parodying American detective stories both the style of the “black novel” and the story. This edition includes two novels: “Let’s Destroy All Freaks” and “Women Can’t Understand.”