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Dagarnas skum

AvBoris Vian

Inbunden, Svenska, 2023

(1)

259 kr

En av efterkrigstidens mest mytomspunna franska författare i ny utgåva

#10 på Le Mondes lista över Århundradets böcker.

I Paris exploderar livet och kärleken. Colin är en av stadens lyckligaste. Han är rik och vacker och håller sig med en egen mästerkock, Nicolas, som lagar de mest depraverade rätter åt honom. Hans vän Chick är fattig ingenjör och dyrkar den store filosofen Jean-Sol Partre, som håller hov på stadens kaféer. När Colin träffar den sköna Chloë och Chick blir förälskad i den lika sköna Alise tycks lyckan vara fulländad. Men Chloë är sjuk och blir allt svagare. Näckrosen som växer i hennes lungor hotar att ta hennes liv. Rummen i Colins lägenhet blir allt mindre, Nicolas mat allt torftigare. Och medan pengarna sinar förvandlas även världen runtomkring, mörknar och sluts ödesdigert kring de älskande. I översättning av Lars Erik Sundberg, med ett nyskrivet förord av Gunnar Nirstedt, författare och förläggare.

BORIS VIAN [1920-1959] är en av den franska efterkrigstiden mest mytomspunna och originella personligheter. Han var utbildad ingenjör men fick sparken från varje anställning. I stället hängav han sig åt jazz, litteratur och populärkultur. Romanen Dagarnas skum [L'Écume des jours] utkom 1947 och lade grunden till hans berömmelse.

»En galen, vacker, rörande roman.« The Independent

Mood Indigo

A Novel

AvBoris Vian

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

209 kr

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Mood Indigo

A Novel

AvBoris Vian

E-bok

Engelska, 2014

146 kr

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The beloved French modern classic that inspired Michel Gondry''s new film, starring Audrey Tautou, is a jazzy, fantastical, tear-jerking tale of love and loss.Boy meets girl. Boy marries girl. Girl falls ill on their honeymoon with a water lily on the lung, which can only be treated by surrounding her with flowers. Boy goes broke desperately trying to keep his true love alive. Mood Indigo by Boris Vian is a feverishly creative, melancholy romance set in mid-century Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Voted number ten on Le Monde''s list of the 100 Books of the Century, this iconic French novel has charmed and beguiled generations with its surreal, absurdist tale of a young couple''s struggle with fate. Vian''s avant-garde masterpiece blends dark humor, fantasy, and tragedy in a revolutionary, populist style that has made it a touchstone for bohemians, artists, and lovers for over fifty years. Now, with a major movie adaptation, Mood Indigo is poised to seduce many more readers around the world with its timeless story and unforgettable imagery.

Blues for a Black Cat and Other Stories

AvBoris Vian,Julia Older

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

183 kr

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Ten of Vian's best jazzy, outrageous short stories, evoking the seamy side of '50s Parisian night life

Autumn in Peking

AvBoris Vian

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

210 kr

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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.

Heartsnatcher

AvBoris Vian

Häftad, Engelska, 2003

199 kr

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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.

Mood Indigo

AvBoris Vian

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

133 kr

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'A mad, moving, beautiful novel' IndependentThe 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 with a big heart. 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: surrounding her daily with fresh flowers. Chick squanders his share of Colin's money on rare books and it is not long before the friends are forced to sacrifice their carefree lives to soul-crushing work.A surreal cult classic that continues to inspire and endure, Mood Indigo is an animated and delightful satire.

Mood Indigo

AvBoris Vian

E-bok

Engelska, 2013

140 kr

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''A mad, moving, beautiful novel'' IndependentThe 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 with a big heart. 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: surrounding her daily with fresh flowers. Chick squanders his share of Colin''s money on rare books and it is not long before the friends are forced to sacrifice their carefree lives to soul-crushing work.A surreal cult classic that continues to inspire and endure, Mood Indigo is an animated and delightful satire.

Vercoquin and the Plankton

AvBoris Vian

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

180 kr

Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar

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.

Trouble in the Swaths

AvBoris Vian

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

174 kr

Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar

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.