Bonjour Tristesse (French Edition) - Softcover

Francoise Sagan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 2012710603 ISBN 13: 9782012710603

Publisher: French and European Publications Inc, 2017

Synopsis

Cécile a dix-sept ans. En vacances avec son père, veuf qui se satisfait d une aventure sans lendemain avec la jolie Elsa, elle découvre l amour dans les bras de Cyril, un charmant étudiant. Mais l arrivée d Anne, une femme belle et intelligente, vient déranger ces délicieux moments d'insouciance.

Avec une écriture moderne et un charme troublant resté intact, Françoise Sagan brosse le portrait d une jeunesse en quête de liberté et de plaisir, jouant avec les sentiments comme on joue avec le feu.
Le texte intégral annoté

Des questionnaires au fil du texte

Des documents iconographiques exploités

Une présentation de Françoise Sagan et de son époque

Un aperçu du genre romanesque

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Review:

("Hello Sadness") Novel by Francoise Sagan, published in French in 1954. The story of a jealous, sophisticated 17-year-old girl whose meddling in her father's impending remarriage leads to tragic consequences, it was written with "classical" restraint and a tone of cynical disillusionment. The book showed the persistence of traditional form during a period of experimentation in French fiction. -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature

Cecile is seventeen. Most of her youth was spent in a convent school, but for the past two years she has lived with her widowed father, a hedonistic forty-year-old with a wandering eye. Cecile has accepted the constantly changing women of their household and cherishes the free-spirited life she shares with her father, including, most recently, a two-month summer vacation at a villa with her father's new mistress, Elsa. The villa is beautiful, Elsa is "rather simple-minded and unpretentious," and Cecile has her own plans for sexual exploration with a "tall and almost beautiful" law student. To Cecile's surprise, however, Anne comes from Paris to join them. Anne, her late mother's friend, is cool, intelligent and restrained; Cecile and her father are exuberant and careless. Cecile expects complications when she realizes that Anne is in love with her father: "All the elements of a drama were to hand - a libertine, a demimondaine, and a strong-minded woman." What unfolds is far from what she imagines. Sympathetic and unsparing, Francoise Sagan takes us into the mind of a precocious seventeen year-old as she attempts to understand and control a world beyond her years. -- For great reviews of books for girls, check out Let's Hear It for the Girls: 375 Great Books for Readers 2-14. -- From 500 Great Books by Women; review by Erica Bauermeister

About this edition

• Publisher: French and European Publications Inc
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 2012710603
• ISBN 13: 9782012710603
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160