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Bonjour Tristesse & A Certain Smile (1956)

by Françoise Sagan(Favorite Author)

3.78 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0141442301 (ISBN13: 9780141442303)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

review 1: I enjoyed A Certain Smile more than Bonjour Tristesse, even though it seems the latter is one that Sagan is famed for. The pain of a failed love affair is captured beautifully, the pain - real sickness - and then how it passes. I loved the last few lines. Both of them though were just too self-indulgent. Written by a teenager, about a teenager, perhaps I should be a bit more forgiving, but that endless introspection bored me after a while.
review 2: "My love of pleasure seems to be the only coherent side of my character. Perhaps it is because I have not read enough?"Bonjour Tristesse, 25."We had spent the afternoon in a cafe in the Rue Saint-Jacques, a spring afternoon like any other. I was slightly bored, and walked up and down between the juke-box and the win... moredow, while Bertrand talked about Spire's lecture. I was leaning on the machine, watching the record rising slowly, almost gently, like a proffered cheek, to it slanting position against the sapphire, when, for no apparent reason, I was overcome by a feeling of intense happiness, a sudden realization that some day I would die, that my hand would no longer touch that chromium rim, nor would the sun shine in my eyes."A Certain Smile, 119. less

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