5/8/2023 0 Comments Francoise sagan novel![]() Some of her novels were turned into movies - "Bonjour Tristesse" and "A Certain Smile" in 1958 - and she directed the 1977 French film "Les Fougères Bleues." Sagan appeared repeatedly on best-seller lists in France, and she went on to write more than a score of books, as well as plays, film scripts, short stories and song lyrics. John Updike, writing in The New Yorker 20 years after "Bonjour Tristesse" appeared, praised "its sparkling sea and secluding woods, its animal quickness, its academically efficient plot, its heroes and heroines given the perfection of Racine personae by the young author's innocent belief in glamour." ![]() Those books, he said, "were perfectly in accord with a moment of time" - the mid-1950's - and "well connected" with France's literary past. Sagan's early novels expressed the rebelliousness and cynicism of many of her peers in the French bourgeoisie. ![]() Serge Gavronsky, a professor of French literature at Barnard College, said in a 1995 interview that Ms. ![]()
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