The basis of the new major movie from Michel Gondry, starring Audrey Tautou, the beloved French modern classic hailed as "the most poignant love story of our time" by Raymond Queneau
The story is simple: Boy meets girl; boy marries girl; girl falls ill on their honeymoon with a water lily on the[...]
"[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[...]
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 it[...]
"Autumn in Peking" takes place in an imaginary desert called Exopotamie, where a train station and a railway line are under construction. Homes are destroyed to lay the lines, which turn out to lead nowhere. In part a satire on the reconstruction of postwar Paris, Vian's novel also conjures a darker[...]
Vian's final and most serious novel begins with an elegant psychiatrist arriving in a remote town, where he helps deliver the triplets of a woman whose husband is locked up in a bedroom because she abhors him for causing the pain and discomfort of her pregnancy. A mix of disturbing incidents and ver[...]
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[...]
Decryptez L'Ecume des jours de Boris Vian avec l'analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr ! Que faut-il retenir de L'Ecume des jours, le classique de la litterature francaise a l'univers poetique et deroutant ? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cette A uvre dans une analyse complete et detaillee. Vou[...]
Die Liebesgeschichte von Colin und Chlo?. Der reiche junge Mannund die hübsche junge Frau verlieben sich, heiraten und sind glücklich. Bis Chlo? einer seltsamen Krankheit erliegt. (Nicht vereinfacht)[...]
Colin går rundt i Paris og drømmer om at blive forelsket, da han møder den unge, smukke Chloé. De forelsker sig hovedkulds i hinanden, gifter sig og nyder livet sammen med venneparret Chick og Alise, kokken Nicolas og en trofast mus i deres egen lille, skæve verden.
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Colin är ung, god, rik och vacker, och lever i Paris med sin mästerkock Nicolas som tillagar de mest fantastiska depraverade rätter. Hans fattige vän Chick är ingenjör och dyrkar författaren Jean-Sol Partre. Colin träffar den sköna Chloë och Chick den sköna Alise. De blir förälskade och[...]
Här är Boris Vians fullkomligt sanslösa roman Hjärtkniparen i efterlängtad svensk nyutgåva. Med boken följer en specialproducerad bonus-cd med Vian sjungande 4 av sina egna låtar, bl a Le déserteur.[...]