Bonjour Tristesse

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• Bonjour tristesse

  La trama e le recensioni di Bonjour tristesse, romanzo di Françoise Sagan edito da Longanesi. Una calda estate sul Mediterraneo. Una splendida villa. Una ragazza di diciassette anni che dell’amore conosce solo i primi appuntamenti, i primi baci. Ma q ... (read full critics)

  Qlibri published on Fri, 26 Nov 2010

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  A juvenile work, but understandably so because the writer was 19 when she wrote it.
  I`m writing this a while after reading it and I don`t have much to say because it didn`t leave much of an impression.

  The characters were caricatures, which works in a sense as the story is told through the voice ... (continue)

  A juvenile work, but understandably so because the writer was 19 when she wrote it.
  I`m writing this a while after reading it and I don`t have much to say because it didn`t leave much of an impression.

  The characters were caricatures, which works in a sense as the story is told through the voice of the teenage protagonist who doesn`t really care about anyone or anything and who wouldn`t bother to plumb the depths of anyone`s personality, let alone her own. I felt no connection to any of the characters because of this and when the climax of the narrative occured it left me cold. The character of Anne is the one we should like and feel for the most from the story, but she is the least real of all because we see her through Cecile`s eyes as a stone Greek Goddess on a pedestal.

  What did make an impression on me though were the descriptions of the French Riviera. The sun, sea and stupor of a hot summer filled with sailing, sunbathing and seduction (pardon the alliteration).

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  May not be as provoking and scandalous as when it was written, but still a good book.

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• English Books
• Paperback 112 Pages
• Edition: New Ed
• ISBN-10: 0140278788
• ISBN-13: 9780140278781
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Pub date: Sep 03, 1998
• Dimensions: 1161 mm x 710 mm x 65 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Hardcover, Audio CD and Others
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