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...PAINTED LADY by Françoise Sagan...
...years ago that Bonjour Tristesse, a short novel by an 18-year-old schoolgirl, Françoise Sagan, sold a record-breaking 1.5 million copies in France. Translations soon topped bestseller lists throughout Europe and in the U.S. A tale of worldly intrigue and adolescent sex, the book caught the public fancy as much for the author's precocious sophistication as for her fine-grained, sensuous prose style. Since then, literary fashions, linguistic games and critical theories have reduced much of French fiction to an esoteric art, impermeable to the intellect, oppressive to the spirit and absolutely...
Meanwhile, Sagan has remained imperturbably on course, charting the manners of France's Beautiful People who inhabit the milieu of high fashion, advertising and show business. Those of her novels that appeared in the U.S., such as A Certain Smile, Aimez-Vous Brahms? and The Unmade Bed, came across as high-class pop fiction à la française with predictable complements of cuckolds, betrayed mistresses and golden-eyed lovers...
Konner calls his book "a treatise on the biology of the emotions," but the book is really concerned with the biological basis of behavior The Tangled Wing aims for that same elusive understanding as E O Wilson's On Human Nature, Carl Sagan's The Dragons of Eden, and Robert Andrey's The Territorial Imperative, and it touches on the subjects of many other less sweeping books which have tried to solve the age-old debate between "nature" and "nurture...
...discouraging unorthodox innovation. Eminent professors, after all, in many cases gained their reputations by breaking away from the eminent scholars of their youth. The list of current luminaries whom Harvard once rejected for tenure includes Nobel-laureate Paul Samuelson, now an MIT economist and the popular astronomer Carl Sagan, currently at Cornell...