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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.

Set in a bizarre and slightly sinister town where the elderly are auctioned off at an Old Folks Fair, the townspeople assail the priest in hopes of making it rain, and the official town scapegoat bears the shame of the citizens by fishing junk out of the river with his teeth. Heartsnatcher is Boris Vian's most playful and most serious work. The main character is Clementine, a mother who punishes her husband for causing her the excruciating pain of giving birth to three babies. As they age, she becomes increasingly obsessed with protecting them, going so far as to build an invisible wall around their property.

Features ten of the author's best short stories, evoking the seamy side of '50s Parisian night life. schovat popis

The world of Mood Indigo is a stained-glass cartoon kind of a place, where the piano dispenses cocktails, the kitchen mice dance to the sound of sunbeams, and the air is three parts jazz. Colin is a wealthy young aristocrat, a slim, innocent creature who loves easily. The instant he sees Chloe, bass drums thump inside his shirt, and soon the two are married. Typically generous, Colin gives a quarter of his fortune to his best friend Chick so he can marry Chloe's friend Alyssum. But a lily grows in Chloe's lung, and Colin must spend his remaining fortune on the only available treatment: surround

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Complemented by two hundred evocative period photographs, an English translation of the classic account of Paris in the 1950s explores the left bank cafes, galleries, underground jazz clubs, theaters, and salons that were home to the existentialist and post-surrealistic circles of the era, with portraits of Jean Cocteau, Jean Genet, Miles Davis, and more.

Nedokončený román, který lze pro jeho ironický tón i zřetelnou parodičnost k americké drsné škole řadit k těm dílům, jež Boris Vian napsal pod pseudonymem Vernon Sullivan. 15. prosince 1950 dostává Boris Vian nápad na "román černé řady". Napíše synopsi, čtyři kapitoly a projekt opustí. Po více nežli šedesáti letech dali dědicové Borise Viana volnou ruku literárnímu spolku L'Oulipo, aby dopsal pokračování. Román čítá celkem šestnáct kapitol, z nichž první čtyři, nezměněny, jsou Vianovy. Nedílnou součástí knihy jsou "učené vysvětlivky", které jsou již plně dílem spolku L'Oulipo a v nichž se jednotliví autoři vyřádí v brilantním intelektuálním humoru, kdy se pokoušejí vysvětlit nevysvětlitelné, nebo naopak složitě popisují zcela triviální pitomost. Nakladatelská anotace. Kráceno.

Dieser Band sammelt Erzählungen, die zum Provozierendsten gehören, was Boris Vian, der »Prinz von Saint-Germain« geschrieben hat. Ob Soldaten auf Tellerminen philosophieren, Polizisten sich mit Achselklappensuppen für ihr gewalttätiges Tagwerk stärken, ob mutierte Kammermusiker sich selbst zu einer Hummersuppe verkochen oder anatomisch versierte Damen und Herren in einem Zugabteil ihren störrischen Mitreisenden auf unorthodoxe Weise auseinandernehmen der Schrecken, den diese Geschichten ungeniert verbreiten, wird in fast jeder Zeile einem Gelächter preisgegeben, das alles andere als komisch ist. Es ist Ausdruck der nervösen Gereiztheit, mit der Boris Vian zeit seines kurzen Lebens auf den sinnlosen Krach zwischen kriegerischen Nationen, aggressiven Zivilisten und den ewig sich befehdenden Geschlechtern reagierte. Er tat es mit Erzählungen, die bis heute nichts von ihrer innovativen Kraft verloren haben.