A Hay Festival and The Poole VOTE 100 BOOKS for Women Selection 'Late into the night we talked of love, of its complications. In my father's eyes they were imaginary. . . This conception of rapid, violent and passing love affairs appealed to my imagination. I was not at the age when fidelity is attractive. I knew very little about love.' The French Riviera: home to the Beautiful People. And none are more beautiful than C???cile, a precocious seventeen-year-old, and her father Raymond, a vivacious libertine. Charming, ...
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A Hay Festival and The Poole VOTE 100 BOOKS for Women Selection 'Late into the night we talked of love, of its complications. In my father's eyes they were imaginary. . . This conception of rapid, violent and passing love affairs appealed to my imagination. I was not at the age when fidelity is attractive. I knew very little about love.' The French Riviera: home to the Beautiful People. And none are more beautiful than C???cile, 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 then, one long, hot summer Raymond decides to marry, and C???cile and her lover Cyril feel compelled to take a hand in his amours, with tragic consequences. Bonjour Tristesse scandalized 1950s France with its portrayal of teenager terrible C???cile, a heroine who rejects conventional notions of love, marriage and responsibility to choose her own sexual freedom.
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A tour de force by the 18 year old Francoise Sagan, written in a fortnight while she was at the Sorbonne - and which achieved a succes de scandale when published in the 1960s.
It is beautifully and sparely written and is a masterful analysis of the power of female jealousy and of its destructive effects . It is also a superb study of the burgeoning sexuality of a teenage girl , and her use of it as a way of achieving her ends.
Read it in French if you can.