A espuma da fragilidade humana.
Uma aparência inicial de felicidade

Um livro que capta a espuma da infelicidade sem alcançar toda a sua profundidade.

Na verdade, nem sei explicar razão de ter gostado do livro; talvez a melancolia do título.

Bylo to jiné, než jsem čekala. Ale velmi příjemně jiné, mám ráda takovéhle hravé podivnosti.
Jenom ke konci mě některé scény už moc nebavily, přišly mi zbytečně roztahané a překombinované.

Spoiler

Hlavně ten pohřeb. Mám pocit, že jsem občas to, co se na něm dělo, ani nedokázala pořádně vnímat, jak se na sebe vršily absurdity.

Ale třeba úplně poslední scéna v mých očích pozvedla Pěnu dní zase o level nahoru, přišla mi výborná. A smutná.
Je to hrozně zajímavá kniha, ale chápu, proč to tolika lidem vůbec nesedne. Chce to mít smysl pro podivno a chuť navrhovat v hlavě všelijaké divnověci, se kterými Vian přijde.

3.5 - but the rating will probably change in the future, because i have a feeling this book is going to stay with me for a very long time from now on

I don't remember the last time I read such a weird, intriguing and fucked up book. I don't know if I liked it or not, but the fact I went through it in ~3 hours must say something. I found the world super interesting, though I am not one for normally accepting sci-fi settings with no explanations. In the beginning, I was pretty neutral in relation to the characters, but by the end I managed to get real attached; they were still so human and familiar in their actions and thoughts, despite the strangeness of their world, and it was nice.
I'm super curious to see what we'll make of it in class - and how on earth it relates to everything we studied up until now, lmao. Still, surprisingly enjoyable!!
And ho man, that whole ending that tried to explain some things, but instead furthers messes you up.... Good job, Boris Vian, good fucking job.

I spend the lightest part of my time in making it dark. Because the light does not enlighten me.

2nd read:
11-26 january 2022

there's smth poetic in reading fucked up books during fucked up months, and while this wasn't as wholly amazing no the reread, THAT ending.... *chef's fucking kiss* a critique of a thousand and one things that spell modernity, dressed up in the most magically absurd word i've read about.

PS: IF YOU READ AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION, I would not recommend the Stanley Chapman one! I have no idea now which one I read the first time around, but it's way superior in how lyrical and beautiful the writing is, and how captivating the story as a result (I'd be tempted to say Brian Harper, for name stylization of the characters)

1st read:
6-8 january 2018

3.5 - but the rating will probably change in the future, because i have a feeling this book is going to stay with me for a very long time from now on

I don't remember the last time I read such a weird, intriguing and fucked up book. I don't know if I liked it or not, but the fact I went through it in ~3 hours must say something. I found the world super interesting, though I am not one for normally accepting sci-fi settings with no explanations. In the beginning, I was pretty neutral in relation to the characters, but by the end I managed to get real attached; they were still so human and familiar in their actions and thoughts, despite the strangeness of their world, and it was nice.
I'm super curious to see what we'll make of it in class - and how on earth it relates to everything we studied up until now, lmao. Still, surprisingly enjoyable!!
And ho man, that whole ending that tried to explain some things, but instead furthers messes you up.... Good job, Boris Vian, good fucking job.

I spend the lightest part of my time in making it dark. Because the light does not enlighten me.