Word: sagan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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THOSE WITHOUT SHADOWS (125 pp.)−Françoise Sagan − Dutton ($2.95). Fifty million Frenchmen cannot only be wrong, they can be plain silly. Since the beginning of last month they have bought nearly 350,000 copies (the U.S. equivalent of more than 1,000,000 sales) of a new novel by Franchise Sagan, and the best that can be said for it is that reading its proofs may have done her some good as occupational therapy following her recent near-fatal auto accident. Author Sagan's Bonjour Tristesse and A Certain Smile showed a certain flair...
...before, Author Sagan, 22, is principally preoccupied with sex. But where in her earlier books sex was at least intermittently pleasant, it now seems to have become a wearisome compulsion to be borne like kleptomania or a facial tic. And where characters used to get involved with each other in reasonably manageable triangles and quadrangles, in this book Author Sagan's sexual geometry clearly has got out of hand. The pack of people who meet at the home of Alain Maligrasse, an editor in a Paris publishing firm, have one common denominator: they are in love with people...
...literary event of the week took place in Paris, where Dans un Mois, Dans un An (In a Month, In a Year), the third novel in four years by Franchise (Bonjour, Tristesse) Sagan, 22, appeared, to the tune of a phenomenal first printing of 200,000 copies. Dedicated to Publisher Guy Schoeller, mid-fortyish, the man she has announced she will marry next winter, the book proved to be another bedtime story, no longer in the first person singular like the previous two, but still very personal. Its characters hop from boredom to boudoir and back again, and when asked...
France's precocious Novelist Franchise (Bonjour Tristesse) Sagan, 21, owner of a Jaguar, a Buick, a Gordini racer and an Aston-Martin, is a madcap hot-rodder who once exulted: "I like to drive 200 kilometers an hour [125 m.p.h.] barefooted!" Last week she was expected to survive after her Aston-Martin, tooling along an unobstructed highway south of Paris on a clear day, left the road and somersaulted in a field...
Precocious Novelist Franchise Sagan, 21, is probably France's most successful export to the U.S. since French fried potatoes and Chanel No. 5. Her neat, sentimentally acid little accounts of old-hearted juveniles and middle-aged delinquents were widely cheered by the critics, eagerly bought by the customers. Still on the bestseller list after 16 weeks is A Certain Smile (TiME, Aug. 20), a thin quadrangle story about an ever-so-wise teenager, her ever-so-world-weary lover, the lover's all-understanding wife and the girl's rather sappy boy friend. In Harper...