false 15959 25 0 male Ville D’Avray 1920/03/10 1959/06/23 141828 2253140872 9782253140870 30 <![CDATA[L'écume des jours]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172131178m/141828.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172131178s/141828.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/141828.L_cume_des_jours 4.21 422 Pied de nez aux conventions romanesques et à la morale commune, L'Ecume des jours est un délice verbal et un festin poétique. Jeux de mots, néologismes, décalages incongrus... Vian surenchérit sans cesse, faisant naître comme un vertige chez le lecteur hébété, qui sourit quand il peut. Mais le véritable malaise vient d'ailleurs : ces adolescents éternels à la sensibilité exacerbée constituent des victimes de choix. L'obsession consumériste de Chick, née d'une idolâtrie frénétique pour un certain Jean-Sol Partre, semble vouloir dire que le bonheur ne saurait durer. En effet, l'asphyxie gagne du terrain, et l'on assiste avec effroi au rétrécissement inexorable des appartements. On en veut presque à Vian d'être aussi lucide et de ne pas s'être contenté d'une expérience ludique sur fond de roman d'amour. --Sana Tang-Léopold Wauters

]]> 15959 4.05 1810 143 1947 766860 096623460X 9780966234602 24 <![CDATA[I Spit on Your Graves]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178164704m/766860.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178164704s/766860.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/766860.I_Spit_on_Your_Graves 3.64 221 I Spit On Your Graves was both a pure mystification and direct home to American literature and movies. More deeply, it was a violent attack on racism by a jazz fan who had already befriended many black musicians and was to become the closest French friend of Ellington, Davis, and Parker. Find out why this young author outstripped sales of Malraux, Camus, Sartre, and de Beauvoir when it appeared in France...and continues to scandalize today.]]> 15959 4.05 1810 143 1952 28377 1564782999 9781564782991 17 <![CDATA[Heartsnatcher (French Literature Series (Normal, Ill.).)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167946365m/28377.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167946365s/28377.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28377.Heartsnatcher 4.18 130 15959 4.05 1810 143 1962 141824 0966234642 9780966234640 8 <![CDATA[Autumn in Peking]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172131176m/141824.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172131176s/141824.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/141824.Autumn_in_Peking 4.24 106 Autumn in Peking (L'Automne à Pékin) is perhaps Vian's most slapstick work, with an added amount of despair in its exotic recipe for a violent cocktail drink. The story takes place in the imaginary desert called Exopotamie where all the leading characters take part in the building of a train station with tracks that go nowhere. Houses and buildings are destroyed to build this unnecessary structure - and in Vian's world waste not, make not. Vian, in a mixture of great humor and unequal amount of disgust, introduces various 'eccentric' characters in this 'desert' adventure, such as Anne and Angel who are best friends; and Rochelle who is in love and sleeps with Anne, while Angel is madly in love with her. Besides the trio there is also Doctor Mangemanche; the archeologist Athanagore Porphyroginite, his aide, Cuivre; and Pipo - all of them in a locality similar to Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, where there is a tinge of darkness and anything is possible, except for happiness.]]> 15959 4.05 1810 143 1964 926376 2720201626 9782720201622 1 <![CDATA[L'Herbe Rouge]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179513938m/926376.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179513938s/926376.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/926376.L_Herbe_Rouge 4.08 62 15959 4.05 1810 143 1962 141825 0803296096 9780803296091 3 <![CDATA[Blues for a Black Cat & Other Stories (French Modernist Library Series)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172131177m/141825.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172131177s/141825.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/141825.Blues_for_a_Black_Cat_Other_Stories 3.87 63 15959 4.05 1810 143 1992 926368 2253146161 9782253146162 1 <![CDATA[Et on tuera tous les affreux]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179513918m/926368.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179513918s/926368.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/926368.Et_on_tuera_tous_les_affreux 4.02 56 15959 4.05 1810 143 1946 550915 2253147826 9782253147824 0 <![CDATA[Les Fourmis]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175723688m/550915.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175723688s/550915.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/550915.Les_Fourmis 4.29 42 15959 4.05 1810 143 1970 447670 0966234650 9780966234657 5 <![CDATA[The Dead All Have The Same Skin]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1207082364m/447670.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1207082364s/447670.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/447670.The_Dead_All_Have_The_Same_Skin 4.09 43 The Dead All Have The Same Skin (Les Morts ont tous la Meme Peau).

Written one year after the controversial (putting it mildly), I Spit on Your Graves, you think Vian would have known better. But no, he decided to do another violent shocker that is ripped out of today's headlines. This surreal masterpiece of dark writing is about Daniel Parker, a bouncer in a hell-hole somewhere in New York City (Vian, a French man had never been to the States) who is blackmailed by his long lost brother who is black and threatens him to tell the truth about his brother's racial blood. Parker is not going to take that. His life, by that admission, becomes a tipsy topsey, one-way ticket to hell.

If that is not enough it also includes a short story by Vian "Dogs, Desire, and Death," which is an erotic tale of a bad girl, a helpless driver, and the need for destruction and sexual release. And no, not even that is not enough; we have a small essay or more like a rant by Vian regarding the history of his first controversial shocker I Spit on Your Graves. And not only that, but also a thoughtful and informative introduction by Marc Lapprand.

]]> 15959 4.05 1810 143 1977 447679 225314133X 9782253141334 2 <![CDATA[Je voudrais pas crever]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174857943m/447679.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174857943s/447679.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/447679.Je_voudrais_pas_crever 4.38 29 15959 4.05 1810 143 251510 4.32 44 4 1997