Word: sagan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Born. To Franç Sagan, 27, French hunt-and-peek novelist of random dalliance who recently published her fifth (see BOOKS), and Robert Westhoff, 31, an expatriate U.S. sculptor: a boy; in Paris...
...WONDERFUL CLOUDS (128 pp.)-Françoise Sagan-Dutton...
...would imagine that on the very day of her young and handsome husband's exhibition, Josee Ash would make love half-dressed in a bathroom five yards square with an old friend whom she was not in love with?" Who would? Françoise Sagan, that's who. Josée, languorous and French, is married to Alan, a rich American boy with a bronze torso, narrow hips, a sturdy neck and no job. Through a series of quickly turned scenes and even more quickly performed vignettes of sexual dalliance (involving half a dozen people in extraordinary geometries...
From start to finish, the whole narrative is ludicrous, but perhaps that is what Françoise Sagan hopes to say about life...
...Sartre (twice), Francois Mauriac, Francoise Sagan. Because, at this stage, the S.A.O. wants to intimidate Frenchmen, not infuriate them, the bombs are usually exploded at times and places when they are not likely to kill. So far, only two have died in S.A.O. bombings in France...