Bonjour tristesse
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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.
Spoiled rich 17 year French girl living with 40 year old widowed playboy dad. They rent a villa outside Paris for the summer and live their lives for their own pleasures. Focuses on her first sexual relationship and the relationships of her father and how easily he is influenced by her and his friends. This was a sensation when published in 1950's France but I found nothing redeeming in it,
