![]() ![]() Bonjour Tristesse scandalized 1950s France with its portrayal of teenager terrible Cecile, a heroine who rejects conventional notions of love, marriage and responsibility to choose her own sexual freedom. Charming, decadent and irresponsible, the golden-skinned duo are dedicated to a life of free love, fast cars and hedonistic pleasures.īut then, one long, hot summer Raymond decides to marry, and Cecile and her lover Cyril feel compelled to take a hand in his amours, with tragic consequences. And none are more beautiful than Cecile, a precocious seventeen-year-old, and her father Raymond, a vivacious libertine. The French Riviera: home to the Beautiful People. I was not at the age when fidelity is attractive. This conception of rapid, violent and passing love affairs appealed to my imagination. Like her first novel, Bonjour Tristesse, many of Sagan’s works feature men and women of the leisure class who display a casual attitude toward love, money, and worldly pleasures, while revealing. ‘Late into the night we talked of love, of its complications. I was pleasantly surprised by the engaging tone of the novel and its universality. A good bit of family drama, an annoying and spoiled teenager with too much time on her hands. “I didn’t think it was my kind of a book. ![]()
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