#3 Red Grass by Boris Vian
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In this episode, we look at Boris Vian's 'Red Grass' (1950), a surrealist science fiction novel in which the main character, Wolf, creates a machine that allows him to erase his own memories. Over the course of our discussion, we consider Vian's playful complexity, his parodies of psychoanalytical and existentialist thought, and the possible significance of 'Red Grass' in terms of French collective memory in the wake of the Second World War.
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