Françoise Sagan, una provocadora autora francesa, se hizo famosa por sus agudas exploraciones de la juventud, la libertad y las convenciones sociales. Sus obras a menudo presentan un estilo elegante y un tono que es a la vez cínico y vulnerable, reflejando su propio estilo de vida. Sagan profundizó en temas de deseo, soledad y las complejidades de las relaciones humanas con una honestidad desarmante. Su legado literario reside en su audaz representación de la vida moderna y sus paradojas inherentes.
Los multiples y dispares comentarios que provoco la publicacion, en diciembre de 1954, de la primera obra de la entonces jovencisima Franoise Sagan, coincidieron al menos en que la obra era un producto de su tiempo, un ajustado testimonio de un modo de entender la existencia que iba a marcar de modo decisivo, en las decadas posteriores, una parte de la conciencia de los paises occidentales.
Set in Paris in the mid-1960s, Lucile, a young, rootless woman, finds herself torn between a fifty-year-old businessman and a thirty-year-old hot-blooded, impulsive editor; and, in a companion to the novel, the translator describes the process of rewritin
At eighteen, Françoise Sagan shot to stardom in France with the 1954 publication of her shocking novel Bonjour Tristesse, which explored themes of hedonism and sexual liberation and achieved international success. The young author became a legend and her fast lifestyle a symbol of postwar cynicism. As celebrity gossip columns kept the public informed (and misinformed) about her expensive tastes, changing lovers, and passion for drink and gambling, Sagan continued to write, avoiding the public eye whenever possible. Now, in this collection of interviews prepared by her French publisher, readers are granted the rare opportunity to meet the real woman behind the myth.
Published when she was only nineteen, Fran�oise Sagan's astonishing first novel Bonjour Tristessebecame an instant bestseller. It tells the story of C�cile, who leads a carefree life with her widowed father and his young mistresses until, one hot summer on the Riviera, he decides to remarry - with devastating consequences. In A Certain SmileDominique, a young woman bored with her lover, begins an encounter with an older man that unfolds in unexpected and troubling ways. These two acerbically witty and delightfully amoral tales about the nature of love are shimmering masterpieces of cool-headed, brilliant observation.
Translated from French into English by Robert Westhoff
