by Françoise Sagan · PRESSES POCKET · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782266195584
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«Bonjour tristesse» is the novel by Françoise Sagan, published by Presses Pocket in paperback (153 pages, in French).
Cécile, a seventeen-year-old girl, spends a carefree summer on the French Riviera with her father, a widower fond of fleeting affairs. The arrival of Anne, a serene and intelligent woman, threatens that balance and drives Cécile to devise a plan to protect her way of life. The novel portrays the awakening of adolescence, the desire for freedom and guilt, with a dry, direct style that marked its generation.
French-language edition from the Pocket collection, originally published in 1954. Winner of the Prix des Critiques in 1954.
For readers of twentieth-century French classics and short novels about youth and family relationships.
Françoise Sagan was a French playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. Sagan was known for works with strong romantic themes involving wealthy and disillusioned bourgeois characters. Her best-known novel was her first, Bonjour Tristesse (1954), which was written when she was a teenager.
