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Blues for a Black Cat and Other Stories by Boris Vian
$26.80 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: French Modernist Library
Ten of Vian's best jazzy, outrageous short stories, evoking the seamy side of '50s Parisian night life
Foam of the Daze by Boris Vian; Brian Harper (Translator)
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Raymond Queneau called it the "most poignant love story of our time," and Julio Cort zar said of its author: "I can't think of another writer who can move me as surreptitiously as Vian does." Boris Vian (1920-1959) was a songwriter, trumpet-player, poet, playwright and pataphysician, but is best remembe ...Show more
Mood Indigo by Boris Vian
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
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 lung, w ...Show more
Mood Indigo by Boris Vian
$0.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A forgotten classic of life, love and lost innocence, now a major movie directed by Michel Gondry.
Trouble in the Swaths by Boris Vian; Terry Bradford (Introduction by)
$31.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 gen ...Show more
Vercoquin and the Plankton by Boris Vian; Terry Bradford (Introduction by, Translator)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A nonconformist satire of both bureaucracy and nonconformism from the French polymath and author of Foam of the Days Written 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 bo ...Show more
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