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ISBN:	1564782999 (ISBN13: 9781564782991)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Angel (Heartsnatcher), Clémentine (Heartsnatcher), Jacquemort

Heartsnatcher

Boris Vian

Paperback | Pages: 245 pages

Rating: 3.97 | 4496 Users | 226 Reviews

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Title	:	Heartsnatcher
Author	:	Boris Vian
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 245 pages
Published	:	October 3rd 2003 by Dalkey Archive Press (first published 1953)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. France. European Literature. French Literature. Novels

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Set in a bizarre and slightly sinister town where the elderly are auctioned off at an Old Folks Fair, the townspeople assail the priest in hopes of making it rain, and the official town scapegoat bears the shame of the citizens by fishing junk out of the river with his teeth. Heartsnatcher is Boris Vian's most playful and most serious work. The main character is Clementine, a mother who punishes her husband for causing her the excruciating pain of giving birth to three babies. As they age, she becomes increasingly obsessed with protecting them, going so far as to build an invisible wall around their property.

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Here's a somewhat bizarre and unexpected emergence from the early 50s -- not exactly surrealism, not the oulipo despite Queneau's forward, perhaps more of a presage of the kinds of wild and unclassifiable oddities that would emerge in greater force in the late 60s and 70s (which Vian didn't live to see, sadly). Someone else pointed to Vian's jazz background in their review (MJ? Jonathan? Knig? Either way, they've all written excellent reviews), and it makes sense: in the beginning theirs a sense

This book was unsettling, unusual, and vivid for its short length and simplicity. Even though it's only 200 pages long, and several long sequences are spent describing the surroundings, I felt like I came to understand the twisted small town described within. Many sequences are memorable, and somewhat disturbing. Over and over again, we are faced with the darkest sides of love, religious power, and intellectualism, but it manages to be funny and odd as well. I liked the book, but it's definitely

Boris Vian has this unique ability to create bizarre and entirely unrealistic worlds that somehow make total sense while reading, almost like a dream (think of Leos Carax's film "Holy Motors"). He makes up words by blending old things, like his usage in this book of months called "Octoptember" and "Novembruary". He talks about a type of bird called a sphinxwing. In the town in which this story takes place, there is a point at which the local builders are called upon to build a wall of nothing.

This is surely one of the strangest, maybe THE strangest book I've read this year. Imagine some fantasy prose, like the one of Michael Ende, mixed with surrealist prose and raw naturalism - and you'll get this insane novel. It is, I suppose, allegory for parenthood, growing up, and society's flaws and corruption in general. But, what's really suprising is the amount of disgusting, gut wrenching descriptions of ugliness and grotesque sights in this surrealist fantasy plot, presented along with

In "Heartsnatcher," Boris Vian put the Western world on the couch for an examination and decided the best solution was to hide from it. Like many writers, Vian had no particular claim to the title of social psychoanalyst other than the frequent contemplation of his navel, which he found time to do in between stints as an actor, jazz trumpeter, engineer and mechanic. This French scribe, of little import beyond his native nation's borders, was part of a post-World War II Parisian ebullience

This book is horrible! Between the horse crucifixion, nailing horseshoes to small children, selling old people to the market, exploiting kids to do horrible jobs until their death, everything is full of a terrible sadness. And the Jesus-like boat-man that takes over all the sins and shameful acts of the villagers is just too much to swallow! The over-protective mother that ends up by locking her children in cages, after cutting them all degrees of freedom. The book can be read in so many ways

People sometimes say they love you, but then you discover that what they really mean is that they want something from you. Just about every woman I know has met the guy who says he loves her, but actually wants sex. I guess that's the example you think of first. But there are plenty more.I saw the movie of Coraline yesterday, and it reminded me of this book. Coraline has her real mother, who loves her, but is very bad at showing it. And then she also has her Other Mother, who wants... well, if