Théâtre de Chaillot, 1939. A Duke Ellington concert. Nineteen-year-old Boris Vian plays the trumpet, and that night was a life-changing moment, the beginning of a journey he remained on his whole life.Froth on the Daydream is a major testimony of this adventure. Novel writer, poet, jazz musician, engineer, mathematician, physicist, pataphysician, inner traveller Boris Vian produced a uniquely massive amount of work, delving into many formal varieties under just as many pen names. Froth on the Daydream went largely unnoticed when it was published in 1947, before becoming a major reference during the 60s and 70s. “Travelling alongside Boris Vian means agreeing to his contradictory ways and utter paradox. He was both solemn and crude, plagued by thoughts about death and keen on dark humour, incredibly free, sweetly light-hearted, and moody and sombre at the same time” says Serge Bagdassarian, who crafted the event. “Vian knew his days were numbered and strived to produce work with rare intensity. Aside from being period pieces, imbued in the nostalgia of what Saint-Germain was like in the 1950s, his writings convey just how urgent it is to live.”

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