3 edition of Heartsnatcher found in the catalog.
Heartsnatcher
Boris Vian
Published
1968
by Rapp and Whiting in London
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Written in English
Edition Notes
French ed.originally published, Paris: Editions Pro-Francia Vrille, 1953.
| Statement | translated from the French by Stanley Chapman. |
| The Physical Object | |
|---|---|
| Pagination | 245p. ; |
| Number of Pages | 245 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL13791724M |
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His counterpart is the. Dalkey Archives Press, part of the non-profit Center for Book Culture, has just republished Heartsnatcher, Vian's last novel, in an English translation by Stanley Chapman which truly does justice to the unique inventiveness of Vian's prose.
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The last novel Vian completed before his death inthis whimsical, absurdist sendup of human foible takes place in a village where old people are auctioned off like slaves.
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Editions for Heartsnatcher: (Paperback published in ), (Mass Market Paperback published in ), (Paperback published in ), Home My Books. The problem is that this book has something to say but it isn't quite sure how to say it, and then when it does say it, it's just banal (if you try to protect your children too much, you just imprison them).
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See all books authored by Boris Vian, including Froth on the Daydream (Quartet Encounters), and Heartsnatcher, and more on The Heartsnatcher foreword by Raymond Queneau is a poem that calls Vian things like “a rolling farawayfarer / an olympiadventurer / among the great mines / of the think-al-hikers / a sagent / of that peak of Parisian secret societies.” Not a bad : Book Marks.
