{"product_id":"9780966234695","title":"Red Grass","description":"\u003cp\u003eBoris Vian (1920–1959) was a magnificent jack-of-all-trades—actor, jazz critic, engineer, musician, playwright, songwriter, translator—not to mention the leading social light of the Saint-Germain-des-Prés scene. His third major novel, \u003ci\u003eRed Grass \u003c\/i\u003eis a provocative narrative about an engineer, Wolf, who invents a bizarre machine that allows him to revisit his past and erase inhibiting memories. A frothing admixture of Breton, Freud, Carroll, Hammett, Kafka and Wells, \u003ci\u003eRed Grass\u003c\/i\u003e is one of Vian’s finest and most enduring works, a satire on psychoanalysis—which Vian wholly and vigorously disapproved of—that inflects science fiction with dark absurdity and the author’s great wit. Much in the novel can be regarded as autobiography, as our hero attempts to liberate himself from past traumatic events in the arenas of religion, social life and—of course—sex. \u003ci\u003eRed Grass\u003c\/i\u003e is translated by Vian scholar Paul Knobloch.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TamTam Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47009625964784,"sku":"9780966234695","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780966234695_p0.jpg?v=1763883981","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780966234695","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}