Word: sagan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back to the charms of grey Paris after a summer at gay Saint-Tropez, where she nursed her suntan on a hot beach all day and danced the cha cha cha all night, French Novelist Franchise (Bonjour Tristesse) Sagan was enjoying the gift of independence she recently offered herself on her 21st birthday: a new dark blue, green and white apartment on the Left Bank, in place of the bourgeois restrictions of her sedate family home. On warm days when Françoise is not dashing about in her Studebaker, Buick, Jaguar (bought with her first royalty check) or Gordini...
...Certain Smile, by Françoise Sagan. That Bonjour Tristesse girl does it again in a novel in which sin triumphs over everything but syntax (TIME...
...time, grownups wrote fables for little girls. Nowadays little girls seem to be writing fables for grownups. Where once adolescents confided their innermost thoughts to "Dear Diary," they now rush them, hot off the typewriter, to their literary agents. Most famous and successful among teen-age sophisticates is Francoise Sagan, who wrote Bonjour Tristesse at 18. Now 21. she is grown up, but there seems to be no shortage of young successors...
...more typical American contender in the Sagan sweeps is Pamela Moore, 18, a Barnard College senior, whose novel Chocolates for Breakfast will appear later this month. It deals with a fading movie star's daughter named Courtney Farrell, who between 15 and 17 has an affair with her mother's gigolo-a homosexual until the heroine sets him straight. After that it's just one Yale man after another, until Courtney turns for intellectual companionship and "decency" to a Harvard law graduate-an "older...
Plenty of Nothing. Author Sagan's prose is as disciplined as her characters are not. Her style is spare, lucid and psychologically astute. Yet her novel is a petition in spiritual and emotional bankruptcy. The word "nothing" recurs with obsessive frequency in describing what the heroine thinks and feels. Hemingway reduced the value problem of his "lost generation" to "What is moral is what you feel good after." Sagan has reduced hers to "What you feel is good, if you feel anything." Even the heroine's parting smile precedes a somewhat rueful summing up: "Well, what...