In the canon
Bonjour Tristesse
Francoise Sagan
- Form
- Form Novella
- Year
- Year 1954
- Originally in
- Originally in French
- Pages
- Pages 150
A teenage girl idles through a Riviera summer enjoying her widowed father's parade of mistresses, and when his plan to remarry threatens that freedom, her scheming helps push the woman toward a fatal crash she can never quite own.
A strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sadness.
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