This was supposed to be about love. But it was actually an absurd book, sad and also simplifying. It was well written, the language was beautiful, the characters more like sketches of ideas than real people, but I assume that was deliberate. I didn't really enjoy it. It also reduces love to in...
This surreslistic novel is one of the most famous works of French author Boris Vian, of those that he first published under his real name. It also made it on many school reading lists and it actually seems to be quite popular in its country of origin – I definitely understand why. Writing Mood Ind...
This book is a collection of some very good short stories of some of the best contemporary French authors. Carefully selected and translated. Besides Sartre, Camus and Beckett (and I wish there was a place for Simone de Beauvoir too) I really liked Boris Vian's Les Fourmis from his book with the sam...
Główny bohater tej niepozornej książki - Lee Anderson, prowadzi księgarnię. Pewnego dnia przyłącza się do grupy młodych osób, których głównym celem w życiu są: imprezy zakrapiane sporą ilością alkoholu oraz orgie. Nasz Lee Anderson szybko zaaklimatyzuje się w nowym towarzystwie...Tak można by opisać...
„Love Story” w oparach absurdu. Piękna i smutna książka o miłości. O miłości, która niszczy i zabija, o miłości bezgranicznej (Colin)i miłości obsesyjnej (Chick). A wszystko w ferii barw, których ilość w książce może przyprawić o oczopląs, podane lekko, subtelnie i dowcipnie. Szczęśliwi czytający po...
Un mundo surreal. Un ratón como mascota. Un cocinero avergonzado de que su hermana haya ido a la universidad. Dos obsesionados con Jean Sol Partre. Una mujer con una flor en el pulmón. Y un hombre enamorado que realiza toda una serie de trabajos bizarros para poder reunir dinero para curarla.Una his...
Ah, Boris. Like many other readers, I imagine, I read this one on the strength of L'Écume des Jours and L'Arrache-cœur – favorites of mine – and the wild story of the book itself. From what I’d read of it, I wasn’t expecting anything up to the standards of those two books, but, it’s Vian, and it see...
Once upon a time, a younger version of this lovely reviewer went to a theater somewhere in the north of France and was witness of a French reproduction of 'L'écume des jours'. The show was a marvellous mix of conversations between cats and mice, flowers, hilarious church services and heartwrenching ...
Wow, this book destroyed me. Beautiful, oneiric, sexy, deadpan, linguistically inventive – and then in the end remorselessly tragic.You know what reading this book is like? It's like you're sitting there having fun, the sun's shining – and who do you see bouncing towards you but the most adorable, c...
After watching the new movie last week, I had to reread the book. Well, the text version is better, but the movie is reasonably faithful to it and does sometimes manage to supply a charming or witty illustration. For example:Le pianocktail- À chaque note, dit Colin, je fais correspondre un alcool, u...
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