VIAN Boris (1920-1959). AUTOGRAPHIC MANUSCRITE, The Flood, [1947]; 82 pages in-4 (split at last leaf). Translation from the American of the short story Là-bas près de la rivière by the African-American novelist Richard WRIGHT (1908-1960). It was published in the magazine L'Âge nouveau in December 1947. It is the tragic story of a flood that disrupts the life and family of a black man and ends in his death. The manuscript, in blue ink, on graph paper, has numerous erasures and corrections. Plus the corrected typescript (76 pages), where the original title has been restored. Attached are 2 autograph MANUSCRITS, Claire étoile du matin, and Le Labyrinthe, [1947 and 1951]; 26 and 37 pages in-4. Two translations of American short stories by Boris Vian. - Claire étoile du matin, by the African-American novelist Richard WRIGHT (1908-1960) was published in 1947 in the magazine Présence africaine. This tragic story takes place near Memphis, at the time of the Segregation - The Labyrinth, by the American science-fiction novelist Frank M. ROBINSON (1926-2014) was published in Les Temps modernes in October 1951. The story takes place on the planet Venus, where two men try to get out of a labyrinth where they got lost.