by Boris Vian · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788472231733
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«La hierba roja» is the novel by Boris Vian published by Tusquets Editores in paperback (200 pages, in Spanish).
An engineer named Wolf and his assistant, the mechanic Lazuli, build a time machine so that Wolf can return to his childhood and confront the old obsessions that prevent him from being happy. The journey aims to exorcise past mistakes, but the task becomes complicated under the watch of the inquisitors and the shadows that still haunt him.
It belongs to the Andanzas collection from Tusquets (no. 121). Originally published in French as «L'herbe rouge» in 1950, this Spanish edition is a translation by Jordi Martí.
For those interested in twentieth-century French fiction and in a fantastical fable with autobiographical overtones.
Boris Vian was a French polymath who is primarily remembered for his novels. Those published under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan were bizarre parodies of criminal fiction, highly controversial at the time of their release owing to their unconventional outlook.
