- French fiction, Translations into Russian, Fathers and daughters, Domestic Architecture
The literary sensation of Paris in 1954 was *"Bonjour Tristesse,"* a novel written by an eighteen year, old girl. By 1955 in translation it was offered to American readers. Some found it shocking but here was a talent extraordinary for its maturity of style and its adult perceptiveness of human character.
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Intimate, classical in form, grave and spare.
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Françoise Sagan
- First published
- 1954
- Pages
- 154
- Publisher
- Presses Club, Cymdeithas Lyfrau Ceredigion, shinchousha
- Editions
- 96
- Language
- French, Russian, und, Chinese
- ISBN
- 9789657340479
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“A STRANGE MELANCHOLY pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow.”
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