Froth on the Day

In his 39 years, Boris Vian managed to be an engineer and inventor, a jazz trumpeter and music critic, a poet, novelist, playwright, screenwriter, actor, translator of Raymond Chandler, reader and performer of his own songs. Time allowed for all this just a few seconds. Vian was born early and lived quickly. Vian was too young. The world was too old.
Boris Vian's musical creativity was appreciated by Georges Brassens, and Serge Gainsbourg, upon hearing Vian's songs, decided to compose and sing himself; Vian showed France the first examples of French rock and roll. Pretending to be an American, Vian wrote several successful commercial novels, and by being himself – several unique books, which were not appreciated during his lifetime but influenced all subsequent development of French literature and became bestsellers after his death.
First published in 1947, Vian's best novel "Froth on the Day" is a surreal phantasmagoria, a high tragedy and a comic dance under the dome. Frédéric Beigbeder quite deliberately placed it in the top ten of his world literary chart. "Froth on the Day" is a simple love story, in which at every turn there is an explosion of light and feeling, absurd and dazzling, and which still continues to sell millions of copies worldwide.