Bonjour tristesse
Ratings20
Average rating3.5
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Ratings20
Average rating3.5
The French Riviera: home to the Beautiful People. And none are more beautiful than Cecile, a precocious seventeen-year-old, and her father Raymond, a vivacious libertine. Charming, decadent and irresponsible, the golden-skinned duo are dedicated to a life of free love, fast cars and hedonistic pleasures. But when Raymond decides to marry, he lets loose in Cecile raw, ungovernable impulses to destroy, with tragic consequences.BONJOUR TRISTESSE scandalized 1950s France with its portrayal of teenager Cecile, a heroine who rejects conventional notions of love, marriage and responsibility to choose her own sexual freedom.
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Une histoire magnifique, et magnifiquement écrite par Françoise Sagan. Je comprends désormais le succès de ce premier roman.
Puissant, c'est le mot qui qualifie le mieux pour moi ce livre. Je suis toujours en train de me demander comment une fille de 18 ans a bien pu écrire une perle pareille. Puissant, et dérangeant.
J'avais souvent vu passer ce titre sans jamais m'y arrêter, force m'est de constater que ce premier roman de Françoise Sagan est effectivement magistral. Les affres de la jalousie, le machiavélisme qu'elle peut générer, les tourments de l'adolescence, ... tout y est si bien représenté, si vivant et prenant. Une oeuvre splendide et hantante.
This could be the ultimate French book. A young narrator, Cecile, drifting into adulthood, in France, is learning about the pleasures of a first love and is experiencing rivalry with her father's new self-assured girlfriend. It's a moody book, full of schemes and chess-like moves in the complex relationships in this story. The author has perfectly captured the tugs toward and away from people, the back-and-forth, love-hate feelings that occur between people. I see why this book is so often included on must-read lists.
