![]() ![]() Why it’s a classic: Published in 1954 when Sagan was only 18, Bonjour Tristesse was a major literary succès de scandale in France, an international bestseller and filmed by Hollywood director Otto Preminger in 1958. ![]() Cécile eventually forgives herself for her own weakness, left only with a new feeling of tristesse (sadness). Cécile and Raymond, united again in grief, return to Paris. Anne catches Raymond and Elsa together, and leaves, dying in a car accident that may or may not have been suicide. Frustrated at Anne’s curtailing of their life of pleasure, Cécile arranges for Elsa seduce Raymond in the hope of driving Anne away. Raymond’s beautiful young mistress is supplanted by Anne, an old friend of Cécile’s mother, who becomes engaged to Raymond and attempts to stop Cécile’s affair with a young law student. What it’s about: A young Frenchwoman named Cécile recalls a tumultuous summer spent holidaying with her womanising father Raymond on the Côte d’Azur. ![]() ![]() In which I review Bonjour Tristesse, Françoise Sagan’s devastating 1954 novel about a young Frenchwoman and her philandering father holidaying on the Côte d’Azur. ![]()
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