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The Foam of the Daze by Boris Vian

From:     book reviews
Category: Books
Date:     29 January 2007
Time:     06:40 AM

Review:

This is big in France apparently. From the time of Sartre. Nice title. Good, Surrealist narrative. Nice to 
realise that whatever can be said will be believed when written. Nice that sentences explode into 
absurdity. Common phrases thunder out of banality. Vian says the best things in life are pretty girls 
and jazz. Which dates him. What if you read this and you're an ugly rocking woman, it's going to 
alienate you. Still the gastonomy is delightful and the vision, which is said to have  inspired 68, of evil 
work, cautionary and right. ON.


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