Heartsnatcher
by Vian, Boris (translated from the French by Stanley Chapman)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine dj
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About This Item
London: Rapp & Whiting. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 1968. First British Edition. Hardcover. [book has a couple of very slightly scrunched lower page corners, no other significant wear; the jacket is very nice-looking, with just a touch of soiling to the rear panel]. The first publication in English of the controversial final novel by this French poet/jazz musician/novelist/critic/and more (1920-1959), a surrealistic tale about a psychiatrist who "takes what turns out to be a lifelong holiday on an isolated coast," where he "discovers a primitive village with, alongside traditional wonders and horrors, a Buckminster Fuller church. The animals are almost human (a stallion is crucified) and the humans are almost -- if not completely -- animal." It gets weirder from there, with the psychatrist delivering a set of triplets to a woman living in a lonely house on a cliff, whose subsequent "curious upbringing" leads to them being locked in cages by their mother "to prevent them from flying away like birds." .
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- Bookseller
- ReadInk (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27038
- Title
- Heartsnatcher
- Author
- Vian, Boris (translated from the French by Stanley Chapman)
- Illustrator
- (dj design) Lawrence Edwards
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dj
- Edition
- First British Edition
- Publisher
- Rapp & Whiting
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1968
- Keywords
- Surrealism, French Literature, Fiction: International
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