Froth on the Daydream by Boris Vian (Book Analysis)
Froth on the Daydream by Boris Vian (Book Analysis)

Author: Bright Summaries

Publisher: BrightSummaries.com

Published: 2015-10-08

Total Pages: 25

ISBN-13: 2806269210

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Unlock the more straightforward side of Froth on the Daydream with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of Froth on the Daydream by Boris Vian, a surrealist and existentialist novel renowned for its poetic and creative language. It relates how Colin’s existence darkens gradually when his wife catches an illness than can only be cured with flowers. The novel has been translated several times under different titles, as has also been made into three feature films and even an opera. Although Vian was a poet, musician, singer, actor and engineer, he is best remembered for his novels which are highly popular and often studied in schools. Find out everything you need to know about Froth on the Daydream in a fraction of the time! This in-depth and informative reading guide brings you: • A complete plot summary • Character studies • Key themes and symbols • Questions for further reflection Why choose BrightSummaries.com? Available in print and digital format, our publications are designed to accompany you in your reading journey. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time. See the very best of literature in a whole new light with BrightSummaries.com!

Heartsnatcher
Heartsnatcher

Author: Boris Vian

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9781564782991

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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

I Spit on Your Graves
I Spit on Your Graves

Author: Boris Vian

Publisher: TamTam Books

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9780966234602

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Fiction. "In the tradition of Karl May and Franz Kafka, Boris Vian imagines an American even more amazing that 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'rai Cracher Sur Vos Tombes -- after allegedly being censored in the U.S. and "translated" into French -- the novel was no best seller, establishing Vian as one of the most famous writers of the mid-twentieth century.

Mood Indigo
Mood Indigo

Author: Boris Vian

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2014-06-24

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0374534225

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

Dan Yack
Dan Yack

Author: Blaise Cendrars

Publisher: Peter Owen Modern Classic

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780720611571

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Centering on eccentric English millionaire shipowner, notorious hell-raiser, and the envy of all St Petersburg, Dan Yack, this strange travel yarn begins with the protagonist finding out that he is no longer wanted by his lover, Hedwiga. Rejection letter in hand, he eventually wanders into a nightclub to impulsively invite a handful of artists to accompany him on a world voyage via the Antarctic. As their journey progresses, the weather worsens and they enter pack-ice. Impatient, Dan orders the crew to land him and his three companions while they wait for a clear passage. They have enough provisions for a long, dark polar winter, but things do not run smoothly. The musician destroys their watches, the poet drifts off into serious daydreams, and the sculptor starts making statues of Dan Yack in ice. And Dan himself is worried--about time, about breaking his monocle, and about having no-one to love. But when the sun finally returns after the polar winter, no one could predict the surreal disaster that is about to unfold--a scenario involving a plum pudding, whales, women, and World War I.

The Dead All Have the Same Skin
The Dead All Have the Same Skin

Author: Boris Vian

Publisher: Tamtam Books

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13:

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Vian's second noir novel under the Vernon Sullivan pseudonym is a brutal tale of racism in postwar New York City, as protagonist Daniel Parker is blackmailed by a long lost brother. Also included is the short story "Dogs, Desire and Death," and Vian's account of the controversies surrounding his previous novel I Spit on your Graves.

Foam of the Daze
Foam of the Daze

Author: Boris Vian

Publisher: TamTam Books

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 9780966234633

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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.

To Hell with the Ugly
To Hell with the Ugly

Author: Boris Vian

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 151

ISBN-13: 9780966234664

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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!

Blues for a Black Cat and Other Stories
Blues for a Black Cat and Other Stories

Author: Boris Vian

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2021-08-18

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 1496215133

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"[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