![]() ![]() Paying for this treatment – along with his loan of money to a bibliophile friend obsessed with expensive editions of “Jean-Pulse Heartre” – exhausts Colin’s fortune, and he is forced to take on a series of increasingly nightmarish jobs to pay the bills. ![]() But after their marriage she becomes seriously ill the only cure is to surround her with fresh flowers day and night. It tells the story of Colin, a well-to-do fop who lives in a tilted, distorted version of Paris, a place where “clavicocktail” machines turn jazz harmonies into alcoholic drinks and candy-floss clouds descend around lovers out for a stroll.Ĭolin meets the beautiful Chloe and falls in love. Vian described his most famous work, the extraordinary L’Ecume de Jours (1949), as a “projection of reality on to an irregularly tilting, and consequently distorting, plane”. ![]() He died in 1959 at the age of 39, suffering a heart attack while watching the film adaptation of one of his pulp noir novels. Friend to Duke Ellington and Miles Davis, he penned a number of popular songs himself, including the anti-war anthem “Le Déserteur” (which later became a hit for Joan Baez during the Vietnam War). ![]() Mood Indigo By Boris Vian (Translated by Stanley Chapman) (Serpent’s Tail £8.99)īoris Vian was a French polymath: a poet, novelist, translator, playwright, jazz critic, and musician. ![]()
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