Boris Vian wrote prose and poetry, worked as a journalist, wrote scripts and starred in movies (one and a half dozen films, by the way), sang and composed songs (there are about four hundred of them) A rare case when intellectual prose is also funny, but this is the main work of Boris Vian “The Pen of Days”. Fascinating, phantasmagoric, enchanting novel-mystery and today is printed all over the world in millions of copies. Not by chance F. Begbeder put it in the top ten of his world literary chart. This edition also includes the novels “Autumn in Beijing”, “Heartbreaker”, “Red Grass”, a collection of short stories “Flies” and two works written by Vian under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan: “All the dead have the same skin” and “I’ll come spit on your graves”.