Je voudrais pas crever

Je voudrais pas crever is a collection of twenty-three poems by French author Boris Vian, published posthumously in 1962, three years after his death in 1959. The manuscript had no title; the collection takes its name from the first poem. Many of the poems deal with tragedy and death and were written in 1951-52, a period of marital, financial and creative difficulty for Vian, and they are often read as if they were autobiographical. The publication came at a time when his literary reputation was rising, following the publication of Romans et Nouvelles and the republication of L'Écume des jours.

The edition edited by Noël Arnaud, first published in 1972 and reissued in 1989, adds four letters written between 1953 and 1959 to the College of 'Pataphysics, along with two brief texts by Vian on literature and the role of the writer.

The book has inspired many French artists, especially singers. Serge Reggiani sang Vian's songs and recorded a track of the same title, and the band Eiffel cited the book as the inspiration for its 2000 album Abricotine. In 2009, fifty years after Vian's death, the work was reissued with illustrations by Jacques de Loustal and others, accompanied by an exhibition in Quebec.