Daytime foam

Boris Vian is the most unusual author of twentieth-century French literature. His novel is a perfect synthesis of surrealism, tragedy and love. As Raymond Quesno said, “The Foam of Days” is the most heartbreaking of all modern novels about love.
Young Chloe falls in love with the wealthy and attractive Colleen, and this, at first glance, a cheerful story about love, between the eyes and the hand, turns into a great and strange tragedy.

No less interesting are the secondary characters of the novel: Chic, a collector of manuscripts and trousers burned by a pipe by Jean-Saul Partre (a parody of Jean-Paul Sartre); Nicolas, who suspiciously resembles P.G. Wodehouse’s character Jeeves; Kitchen mice, who especially love the sound of sunlight hitting the faucet…

Despite the fact that we are dealing with a seemingly simple, even banal love story, “The Foam of Days” is an epochal text that neutralizes the heaviness of life with surreal lightness.