Froth on the Daydream

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Froth on the Daydream (French: L'Écume des jours, lit. "The Froth of Days") is a 1947 surrealist novel by French author Boris Vian. It was first translated into English under that title in 1967. It has since been translated in additional versions under other English titles. Although told as a linear narrative, the novel employs surrealism and contains multiple plot lines, including the love stories of two couples, talking mice, and a man who ages years in a week. One of the main plot lines concerns a newlywed man whose wife develops a rare and bizarre illness that can be treated only by surrounding her with flowers. The book has been translated several times into English, each version with a different title. Stanley Chapman's translation is titled Froth on the Daydream (Rapp & Carroll, 1967), John Sturrock's is called Mood Indigo (Grove Press, 1968), and Brian Harper's is named Foam of the Daze (TamTam Books, 2012). Mood Indigo was adapted as a 2013 film by the same title. Farrar, Straus...

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