The internationally beloved story of a precocious teenager's attempts to understand and control the world around her, Françoise Sagan's Bonjour Tristesse is a beautifully composed, wonderfully ambiguous celebration of sexual liberation, at once sympathetic and powerfully unsparing. Bonjour tristesse (which means Hello, Sadness) is the story of a jealous, sophisticated 17-year-old girl who meddles in her father’s impending remarriage with tragic consequences. And when a relationship begins to develop between the adults, Cécile and her lover set in motion a plan to keep them apart.with tragic, unexpected consequences. Bonjour tristesse, novel by Françoise Sagan, published in French in 1954.
Franoise Sagan, Joanna Kilmartin (Translator) 3.81 avg rating 1,603 ratings published 1969 70 editions. But the arrival of her late mother's best friend intrudes upon a young girl's pleasures. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. The characters were entertaining and the ending was surprising. Cécile cherishes the free-spirited moments she and her father share, while plotting her own sexual adventures with a "tall and almost beautiful" law student. Bonjour Tristesse oozed lazy decadence and charm, and made me long to be on the French Riviera. Freed from the stifling constraints of boarding school, she joins her father-a handsome, still-young widower with a wandering eye-for a carefree, two-month summer vacation in a beautiful villa outside of Paris with his latest mistress.
Set against the translucent beauty of France in summer, Bonjour Tristesse is a bittersweet tale narrated by Cecile, a seventeen-year-old girl on the brink of womanhood, whose meddling in her father's love life leads to tragic consequences.Įndearing, self-absorbed, seventeen-year-old Cécile is the very essence of untroubled amorality.
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