Boris Vian

« Le plus poignant des romans d’amour contemporain.» Raymond Queneau « L’écume des jours, c’est Roméo et Juliette sans confl its familiaux, Tristan et Yseut qui n’ont pas besoin de philtre, Paul et Virginie à Saint-Germain-des-Prés, une Dame dont les Camélias sont remplacés par un Nénuphar, Héloïse sans castrer Abélard. Voilà un tournant : le moment, après la guerre, où le roman français se dit que ce qui importe, c’est de faire bouger le lecteur sur un air de be-bop. Boris Vian en a marre des académismes, il veut faire rire et swinguer la langue, il veut obtenir les larmes, il veut aussi faire rêver et proposer davantage qu’une romance: une fenêtre ouverte sur le merveilleux.» Frédéric Beigbeder

L'écume des jours

Fiction. In the tradition of Karl May and Franz Kafka, Boris Vian imagines an America even more amazing than the land he has never visited. I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVES is the first novel to put the quotation marks around the hardboiled thriller--a vivid and startling performance (J. Hoberman). The book is Boris Vian's (1920-1959) sex-and-violence-filled homage to American noir. Originally published in France as J'IRAI CRACHER SUR VOS TOMBES--after allegedly being censored in the U.S. and translated into French--the novel was a best seller, establishing Vian as one of the most famous writers of the mid-twentieth century.

I Spit on Your Graves

Froth on the Daydream

Boris Vian s early death robbed French literature of a novelist who was coherent while still modern. Heartsnatcher is an esoteric, surrealistic comedy about guilt, set in a deceptively familiar, almost ordinary locale. New Statesman

Heartsnatcher

Günlerin Köpügü

La schiuma dei giorni

Mezarlariniza Tükürecegim

Fiction. Translated from the French by Brian Harper. "FOAM OF THE DAZE is a novel like no other, a sexy, innocent, smart and sweet cartoon of a world which then begins, little by little, to bleed real blood until, in the end, the blood turns out to be our own. I read it nearly thirty years ago in its previous incarnation as Mood Indigo and I loved it then; it's still one of my favorite books in the whole world"--Jim Krusoe. "A kind of jazzy, cheerful, sexy, sci-fi mid-20th century Huysmans. Check it out. There is just no place like France"--Richard Hell.

Foam of the Daze

Il est singulier de voir, dans une même collection, Boris Vian voisiner avec Ségur, Buckeridge et Berna.

roman

L'Écume des jours

En fantastisk kærlighedsroman i et sælsomt eventyrmiljø, hvor det uventede ikke kan overraske og hvor livet nødvendigvis må få et tragisk forløb

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Stanley Chapman

Presents a story in which a husband must try to keep his ill wife alive by constantly surrounding her with fresh flowers.

A Novel

Mood Indigo

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Z.Zühre İlkgelen

Bütün ölülerin derisi aynıdır

roman présenté par R. Queneau

L'arrache-coeur

Sputerò sulle vostre tombe

Autumn in Peking

"[This collection] displays Vian's range from gallows humor to verbal fireworks, and happily serves to give visibility to this important writer."- Publishers Weekly. "Ultimately, Blues for a Black Cat is a collection of moral fables, albeit fables told in a cynical, mocking voice and set in a skewed version of the real world. Under the surface absurdity and verbal play, they offer serious indictments of human weakness and pretensions. Further, they reveal the spiritual emptiness just beneath our civilized faade. Vian's blues are not only for a black cat, but for a society without meaning."- Manoa. "[Blues for a Black Cat] brings back the nimble Vian in a collection of his short fiction, initially published as Les Fourmis in 1949. The work has the unmistakable flavor of the time and place, Claude Abadie's jazz band, the coded and absurdist messages of rebellion, the wistful fables, verbal riffs and goofy anarchic encounters; the mise-en-scene includes an expiring jazzman who sells his sweat, a cat with a British accent and a piano that mixes a cocktail when "Mood Indigo" is played."-Boston Globe. Boris Vian (1920-59), a trained engineer and jazz trumpet player, was a major literary figure in World War II France. Julia Older is the author or editor of many works. Her stories, translations, and poems have appeared in New Directions, the New Yorker, and many other journals.

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