"The second book is now out, and so is the verdict. Frank and spontaneous, vulnerable and cruel, thoughtless and insightful, Sagan's young narrator explores such perennial themes as unrequited love and the precarious balance of irrational emotions and self-restraint.This edition includes a new foreword by Diane Johnson, author of the best-selling novels Le Divorce and L'Affaire. His worldly uncle strikes her as more exciting, appealingly risky and forbidden. She is fond of her loyal boyfriend, but he, too, bores her. Like Bonjour Tristesse, this story is set in Paris in the 1950s and told by a young student bored by her law books, restless and curious about love and sex. But her second novel, A Certain Smile, less shocking and more psychologically convincing, was preferred by many critics. Francoise Sagan is best known for her first novel, Bonjour Tristesse, which caused a scandal when she first published it at the age of eighteen in 1953.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |