num_pages: 245
description: Vian's final and most serious novel begins with an elegant psychiatrist arriving in a remote town, where he helps deliver the triplets of a woman whose husband is locked up in a bedroom because she abhors him for causing the pain and discomfort of her pregnancy. A mix of disturbing incidents and verbal wit, "Heartsnatcher is as funny and strange as the best of Raymond Queneau and Eugene lonesco.
language: French
title: Heartsnatcher
titlecomplete: Heartsnatcher
characters: Jacquemort, Angel (Heartsnatcher), Clémentine (Heartsnatcher)
genres: Fiction, France, French Literature, Surreal, Roman, Literature, Classics, Novels, 20th Century, Fantasy
ratings_count: 5953
publisher: Quartet Books