"- Do you find me beautiful?
Chloe was reflected in the water of a silver tank where the goldfish swam undisturbed. On her shoulder, the gray mouse with black mustaches rubbed his nose with his little feet and observed the changing reflections.
Chloe had put on her stockings, transparent like incense smoke, in the color of her fair skin, and her tall white leather heels. Otherwise, she was naked, except for a bracelet made of blue gold that made her delicate wrist look even more fragile.
- Do you think I should get dressed?"

Reader, welcome to the world of Boris Vian: a dreamlike world, seen through the author's "magic window," an artificial and imaginative world, colorful, frothy, tasty, and melodic.

"Foam of the Daze" is a novel of an era, a country, a language, and at the same time a timeless, geographically unbound novel, a novel par excellence of language, in the tradition of Rabelais, Lewis Carroll, Alfred Jarry, and Raymond Queneau, in the spirit of the College of Pataphysics. It is also a novel of music, jazz, a "very swing" novel, according to the author's favorite expression.

Recently, "Foam of the Daze" was adapted for the big screen by Michel Gondry, starring Audrey Tautou and Romain Duris, Gad Elmaleh, and Omar Sy.