Françoise Sagan Books In Order

Novels

  1. Bonjour Tristesse (1954)
  2. A Certain Smile (1956)
  3. Aimez-vous Brahms (1957)
  4. Those Without Shadows (1957)
  5. The Wonderful Clouds (1960)
  6. La Chamade (1966)
  7. Heart-keeper (1968)
  8. Sunlight on Cold Water (1971)
  9. A Few Hours of Sunlight (1971)
  10. Reponses (1974)
  11. Scars on the Soul (1974)
  12. Lost Profile (1974)
  13. Silken Eyes (1977)
  14. The Unmade Bed (1978)
  15. Incidental Music (1984)
  16. The Painted Lady (1984)
  17. Still Storm (1984)
  18. Salad Days (1984)
  19. With Fondest Regards (1985)
  20. Le Chien Couchant (1985)
  21. Engagements of the Heart (1987)
  22. A Reluctant Hero (1987)
  23. Dear Sarah Bernhardt (1988)
  24. Painting in Blood (1988)
  25. The Leash (1991)
  26. Evasion (1993)
  27. A Fleeting Sorrow (1995)

Omnibus

  1. Bonjour Tristesse / Certain Smile (1958)

Novellas

  1. The Gigolo (2018)

Non fiction

  1. Night Bird (1980)
  2. The Eiffel Tower (1989)

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Françoise Sagan Books Overview

Bonjour Tristesse

Endearing, self absorbed, seventeen year old C cile is the very essence of untroubled amorality. 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, Elsa. C cile cherishes the free spirited moments she and her father share, while plotting her own sexual adventures with a ‘tall and almost beautiful’ law student. But the arrival of her late mother’s best friend, Anne, intrudes upon a young girl’s pleasures. And when a relationship begins to develop between the adults, C cile and her lover set in motion a plan to keep them apart…
with tragic, unexpected consequences. The internationally beloved story of a precocious teenager’s attempts to understand and control the world around her, Fran oise Sagan’s Bonjour Tristesse is a beautifully composed, wonderfully ambiguous celebration of sexual liberation, at once sympathetic and powerfully unsparing.

A Certain Smile

Fran oise 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. But her second novel, A Certain Smile, less shocking and more psychologically convincing, was preferred by many critics. 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. She is fond of her loyal boyfriend, but he, too, bores her. His worldly uncle strikes her as more exciting, appealingly risky and forbidden. 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. The second book is now out, and so is the verdict. Sagan’s novel Un Certain Sourire, written in two months, is the new literary sensation of Paris. Time Miss Sagan is a technician of the highest order, working with exceptional economy and elegance in the tradition of Colette and Benjamin Constant. Atlantic The reader is given the feeling of having opened a young girl s intimate diary by mistake. But whoever put such a diary down? especially when the author is as sensitive, experienced, gifted and freshly talented as Mlle. Sagan! San Francisco Examiner Sagan s style is honest, direct, and her dialogue true. But for her sake let s hold back those invidious comparisons. Colette indeed! She might turn out to be Sagan. Saturday Review

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