FSG Classics Mood Indigo, (Paperback)

from Judiex

Originally published in France in 1947, MOOD INDIGO is not quite a science fiction but not a straight novel either. Surreal would be more accurate. Rooms and people change shapes. People get sick with strange illnesses and doctors have healing weird techniques. Romance blooms, and as do blossoms,...

from Paulagraph

Strange novel (my edition has a different cover, by the way). Written in the forties, it reminds me a bit of "teenage tragedy songs" popular in early 60s that usually featured the death of the male of a couple of teenage lovers. Here it's the female (Chloe) of the young, self-absorbed lovers who ...

from bodachliath

A seriously bizarre surreal fantasy - part love story, part word game, part reflection on jazz, life, death, work and Sartre (or should I say Jean Pulse Heartre), fed through the prism of a translator who seems to have imbibed too much of the psychedelic atmosphere of late 60s London. According t...

from eyelit

fantastically bizarre novel

from baswood

I have never read a book quite like L'écume des jours, but then again I have never read a book quite like Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery and so reading these two in parallel was quite a strange experience, because in some aspects they are similar. [Le Petit Prince] was published in 1...