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Original Title:	L'Arrache-cœur
ISBN:	1564782999 (ISBN13: 9781564782991)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Angel (Heartsnatcher), Clémentine (Heartsnatcher), Jacquemort

Heartsnatcher Paperback | Pages: 245 pages

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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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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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bizarre.I think it's better not to try and explain this novel at all...all I'll say is that it seems to be dealing with the concept of guilt, but mostly what one will remember is the Old Folks' Fair (auction of old people for buyers' personal abuse), Glory Hallelujah who takes upon himself all of the shame of the villagers in exchange for gold that he is not permitted to spend, blue slugs that make you fly, and psychoanalysis equalling doggy-style sex.very funny. very weird. Even Vian's life is

Amusing as a shocking diversion but never really satisfying.

Read back circa 1997.Re-read half of it in 2016 over the summer. Still like the tone, but I would classify as young adult. Was a bit less impactful than in my memories.

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.

The final novel from Boris Viansort of a Queneau for Coltrane enthusiastsis a bleak and harrowing tale of a mother who loves her children too much. Well, thats the rub. Theres also the David Lynch village, unnamed, where unfeeling psychiatrist Timortis wanders into the Old Folks Fair, where OAPs are sold to the highest bidder. He meets the Glory Hallelujaha man paid in gold to absolve the villages shame by fishing corpses and fish heads from the local river with his teeth, leaving the residents

This is truly one of the best books that I have ever read. It isn't an easy read yet somehow, you find yourself enjoying it. I'm not sure how anyone could classify this book into a certain genre. At times, I feel as though it's a mystery novel, maybe a comedy or even a romance. Its strange how Vian can portray so many different genres into one book. On the other hand, be prepared to think deeply as you read this one.

"We find that things that don't interest us very much are beautiful above all others because they allow us to see what we want to see in place of them. Perhaps I shouldn't put it in the first person plural." (212)This book has the dubious honor of joining the elite "completed-during-childbirth-hospital-stay" shelf started two years ago when my eldest was born. It will be forever nestled safely in my mind between The Brothers Karamazov and the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. I know, I've revealed