Bøger af Boris Vian

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. Midt i idyllen bliver Chloé pludselig syg. Det viser sig, at hun har noget voksende i sig; en sygdom, der kun kan behandles ved nærværet af blomster og som efterhånden truer med at lægge sig imellem deres kærlighed. Dagenes skum er Boris Vians mesterlige hovedværk fra 1946-47, som på forunderlig, billedrig og nærmest kafkask vis fortæller en kærlighedshistorie, der er lige så blid og rørende, som den er barsk og sørgelig. Nummer 1 i serien Glemte Mesterværker

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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.

A rollicking adventure caper satirizing the soon-to-be ubiquitous aspects of spy sagas First published posthumously in 1966, Trouble in the Swaths was written by Boris Vian for a small audience of family and friends during the Nazi Occupation of Paris. It is a flippant, at times outrageous parody of genre fiction laced through with bursts of Sadean violence, absurdist slapstick and excessive wordplay in which the author makes his fictionalized debut under such anagrammed monikers as the Baron Visi and the detective Brisavion. Despite preceding Ian Fleming's novels by several years, Trouble in the Swaths nonetheless anticipates and ridicules such spy thrillers and their sexism, casual murders, plot twists and technological gadgetry. The adventure involves grenades and machine guns, planes and parachutes, trapdoors and underground caverns, a secret manuscript that endeavors to absorb the novel and, at the center of it all, the core of the narrative maelstrom: the "forked barbarin."Boris Vian (1920-59) was a French polymath best known for his novels: both the crime novels he published under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan and the surrealistic writing he published under his own name.

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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 version of Alice in Wonderland.

A fascinating hybrid of noir action, cheap science fiction, and hard sex in a dream land called Los Angeles. Boris Vian had never been to Los Angeles, but that didn't stop him from writing the most bizarre sexual sci-fi novel ever set there. To Hell With the Ugly is one of the first novels to take on the issue of cloning, for the sole purpose of beauty- the elimination of all ugly people, to be replaced by beautiful clones. A new English translation of the 1948 French masterpiece!

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 verbal wit, "Heartsnatcher is as funny and strange as the best of Raymond Queneau and Eugene lonesco.

A nonconformist satire of both bureaucracy and nonconformism from the French polymath and author of Foam of the DaysWritten at the age of 23 for his friends in the winter of 1943-44, Vercoquin and the Plankton was the first of Vian's novels to be published under his own name. Published in 1947, the book came out two months after his succès de scandale I Spit on Your Graves and two months before the publication of his beloved classic The Foam of the Days. At once social documentary, scathing satire and jazz manifesto, Vercoquin and the Plankton describes the collision of two worlds under the Vichy regime: that of the youthful dandyism of the ever-partying Zazous and the murderously maniacal bureaucracy of a governmental office for standardization. In this roman à clef drawn from Vian's own contradictory lives as a jazz musician on the Left Bank and an engineer at the French National Organization for Standardization, the reader is introduced to a handful of characters inhabiting a world lying somewhere between Occupied Paris and Looney Tunes.Boris Vian (1920-59) was a French polymath who in his short life managed to inhabit the roles of writer, poet, playwright, musician, singer/songwriter, translator, music critic, actor, inventor and engineer, before dying of a heart attack at the age of 39, after authoring ten novels, several volumes of short stories, plays, operas, articles and nearly 500 songs. Vian is remembered as one of the reigning spirits of the postwar Parisian Latin Quarter, a friend to everyone from Jean-Paul Sartre to Raymond Queneau and Miles Davis, playing trumpet with Claude Abadie and Claude Luter, and an influence on such future kindred spirits as Serge Gainsbourg.

L'écume des jours : ce titre léger et lumineux annonce une histoire d'amour drôle ou grinçante, tendre ou grave, fascinante et inoubliable, composée par un écrivain de vingt-six ans.C'est un conte de l'époque du jazz et de la science-fiction, à la fois comique et poignant, heureux et tragique, merveilleux et fantastique, féerique et déchirant. Dans cette oeuvre d'une modernité insolente, l'une des plus célèbres du xxe siècle et livre culte depuis plus de cinquante ans, Duke Ellington croise le dessin animé, Sartre devient une marionnette burlesque, la mort prend la forme d'un nénuphar, le cauchemar va jusqu'au bout du désespoir.Mais seules deux choses demeurent éternelles et triomphantes : le bonheur ineffable de l'amour absolu et la musique des Noirs américains?

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