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| Original Title: | Bonjour tristesse |
| ISBN: | 2266127748 (ISBN13: 9782266127745) |
| Edition Language: | French |
| Characters: | Elsa Mackenbourg, Anne Larsen, Cécile, Raymond, Cyril |
| Setting: | Riviera, France |
| Literary Awards: | Prix des Critiques (1954) |
Françoise Sagan
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 154 pages Rating: 3.64 | 25705 Users | 1760 Reviews
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| Title | : | Bonjour tristesse |
| Author | : | Françoise Sagan |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 154 pages |
| Published | : | September 16th 2002 by Pocket (first published 1954) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. France. Classics. European Literature. French Literature |
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La villa est magnifique, l'été brûlant, la Méditerranée toute proche. Cécile a dix-sept ans. Elle ne connaît de l'amour que des baisers, des rendez-vous, des lassitudes. Pas pour longtemps. Son père, veuf, est un adepte joyeux des liaisons passagères et sans importance. Ils s'amusent, ils n'ont besoin de personne, ils sont heureux. La visite d'une femme de cœur, intelligente et calme, vient troubler ce délicieux désordre. Comment écarter la menace ? Dans la pinède embrasée, un jeu cruel se prépare.C'était l'été 1954. On entendait pour la première fois la voix sèche et rapide d'un « charmant petit monstre » qui allait faire scandale. la deuxième moitié du XXe siècle commençait. Elle serait à l'image de cette adolescente déchirée entre le remords et le culte du plaisir.
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A strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sadness. In the past the idea of sadness always appealed to me, now I am almost ashamed of its complete egoism. How strikingly different this is from the literature of 1950s England: laddish books of class and ambition like Room at the Top and A Kind of Loving where young women are trophies and obstacles with their ever-present desired and frightening bodies. Sagan's narrator, in contrast, is the 17"Goodbye Sadness." I was drawn to the screen adaptation of this book years ago because of the title and I really enjoyed it. I decided to read this book in French as it's not too long and therefore didn't seem too overwhelming to me. The main character, 17 year old Cecile, was something else! It was interesting to read Cecile's scheming thoughts, though you can't help but think what a spoiled brat she is. With a playboy father like Raymond who doesn't really parent her, I guess it's not a
"Mes jours comme mes nuits sont en tous points pareils, sans joies et pleins d'ennui..." Françoise Hardy's words are quite fitting when it comes to describing the languorous atmosphere of "Bonjour Tristesse", another Françoise's first novel. An important novel, in spite of its flaws and shortcomings: one of those books a whole society must cope with once in a decade. F. Sagan is only eighteen when she writes about Cécile, seventeen, a pampered teenage Parisian living with a pampered young
First, a digression. (How can one digress before the story has even begun? Surely for a digression to take place, a tangible thread needs to be established? Well, what is this parenthesis exactly, if not a digression? Point proven). So: that digression I promised. My first brush with love was with a Scottish lassie named Emma (not a very Scots name, but if local flavour is required, lets call her Agnes). So Emma-Agnes was the victim of my affections and the entire passionate encounter is best
Rachel Cooke in this Guardian article The subtle art of translation reflects on the importance of the right translation and relates her memory of reading Bonjour Tristesse.a novel I have loved ever since I first read it as a teenager, and whose dreamy opening line in its original translation from the French by Irene Ash A strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sadness I know by heart.She decides to splash out and buy a new copy to read and
The protagonist of the novel is a young girl named Cecile, who doesnt want her widowed father to remarry because well she likes her life the way it is. Her father is a womanizer, but she doesnt mind it, presumably because that is what makes her the emotional centre of his life. Anyhow, it is the life she is used to and we humans in general are not very keen on change, are we? Bonjour Tristesse is not a long novel, I would say it is something you can read in two hours or less. So, if youre
"That summer, I was seventeen and perfectly happy. ...My father was forty, and had been a widower for fifteen years. He was young for his age, full of vitality and liveliness. When I left my convent school two years before and came to Paris to live with him, I soon realized that he was living with a woman. But I was slower in accepting the fact that his fancy changed every six months! But gradually his charm, my new easy life, and my own disposition, led me to fall in readily with his ways. He
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