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by Francoise Sagan (Author) "A STRANGE MELANCHOLY pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow ..." (more)
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Endearing, self-absorbed, seventeen-year-old Cécile is the very essence of untroubled amorality. Freed from the stifling constraints of boarding school, she joins her father—a handsome, still-young widower with a wandering eye—for a carefree, two-month summer vacation in a beautiful villa outside of Paris with his latest mistress, Elsa. Cécile cherishes the free-spirited moments she and her father share, while plotting her own sexual adventures with a "tall and almost beautiful" law student. But the arrival of her late mother's best friend, Anne, intrudes upon a young girl's pleasures. And when a relationship begins to develop between the adults, Cécile and her lover set in motion a plan to keep them apart...with tragic, unexpected consequences.

The internationally beloved story of a precocious teenager's attempts to understand and control the world around her, Françoise Sagan's Bonjour Tristesse is a beautifully composed, wonderfully ambiguous celebration of sexual liberation, at once sympathetic and powerfully unsparing.



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FranÇoise Sagan (1935-2004) was only eighteen when her first novel, Bonjour Tristesse, was published. Her other novels include Incidental Music, A Certain Smile, and The Painted Lady.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Le Plus Beau Roman, Oct 19 2008
This review is from: BONJOUR TRISTESSE (Mass Market Paperback)
Is this a novel or a long, stream of consciousness poem? With fine twists of sentiment that range from those delicate, pristine, unreliable moments of late adolescence to those harsher insights of the same age, the book takes the reader on a spellbinding, emotionally volatile journey. Sagan renders scenes so poignantly one feels as if one is part of the same troubled triangle between the heroine, the father and the father's lover (roman a clef?). I have read this numerous times and have been deeply affected each time.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Pourqois?, Feb 25 2004
By Allen Smalling (Chicago, bang-bang) - See all my reviews
This review is from: BONJOUR TRISTESSE (Mass Market Paperback)
BONJOUR TRISTESSE c'est une livre tres ravissemente, mais pourquois sont tous les feuilletons d'Amazon cybernetique en Anglais? Il n'y-a pas d'auteurs francophones pour cette edition en particulier??

Pardonnez-mois pour ma usage terrible de la belle langue; ma lieu de naissance etais Baton Rouge, Louisianne, mais je suis d'origienne anglophone.

Tres ravissemente, la travaille de Mlle. Sagan.
Une livre avec une protagoniste dans l'an 1955, mais "Plus ca change, plus ce la meme chose" aussi pour les Teenagers!

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3.0 out of 5 stars fun, but preposterous, Jan 26 2004
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This is a French classic, so it behooves any serious francophile to read it. And it definitely is an amazing achievement for an 18 year old author. But it takes nearly half the book for the dramatic tension to appear. And the way it is handled shows the immaturity of the author. The dramatic turns are silly and shallow and unbelievable, cartoonish. Nonetheless, Sagan does show occasional flashes of pretty and pleasing humor, insight and poignancy.

And this book really is more of a short story than a novella. The first half of the book could easily have been edited down to one third of its length, hence making it something more suitable for inclusion in short story collections.

And one should bear in mind that much of the initial popularity of this book was due, I'm sure, to fairly crass and prurient reasons. The sex, and especially the teen sex, that is described seems very tame by todays standards. So this book really is quite dated and even antique. In a way, it reminds me of an old scratched Elvis 45. It's so hard to imagine nowadays how anyone could have gotten that worked up about it.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Not a girl, not yet a woman
'Bonjour Tristesse' is a typical French coming-of-age story. Written in the 1950s' it was an instantaneous scandal for dealing so clearly with teenagers and their sexuality. Read more
Published on Nov 23 2003 by Alysson Oliveira

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Novella of Adolescence!
This is a subtle novella of 17-year-old Cécile, recently released from a convent school and enjoying a semi-dissolute life while living with her playboy father and his mistress de... Read more
Published on Jan 26 2003 by Charles E. Joubert

5.0 out of 5 stars Subtly Enchanting
Francoise Sagan is a brilliant French writer, who here has written an intriguing novel about a young lady's 'coming-of-age' while on holiday by the sea. Read more
Published on Sep 13 2002

5.0 out of 5 stars Innocence Sidelined
Francoise Sagan is a brilliant French writer, who here has written an intriguing novel about a young lady's 'coming-of-age' while on Holiday by the sea. Read more
Published on Sep 6 2002

4.0 out of 5 stars A Quick but good read
This tells the story of one girls summer as she "comes of age" The book feels up to date in many ways. Read more
Published on April 27 2002 by wwolfson3

4.0 out of 5 stars Good reading
I read this book when I was 20 in Turkish. After 2 years I watched its movie and re-read the book. It is really a good book.
Published on April 8 2002 by P. Gungor

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent read
I found Bonjour Tristesse an incredibly moving and stimulating book, which I would recommend to anyone who is intruiged by the emotions that a young woman goes through during her... Read more
Published on Mar 17 2000 by 17 year old English girl

4.0 out of 5 stars a good light read
Having only studied french for a few years, I was reluctant when my friend plopped this book down on my lap and said "You MUST read this. Read more
Published on Sep 27 1998

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