Bonjour Tristesse (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Françoise Quoirez
- First Published: 1954
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: A summer and early fall in the 1950’s
- Setting: The French Riviera and Paris
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, Parents and children, Teenagers, France or French people, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Suicide, Alienation, Guilt, Paris, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Fathers, Upper classes
- Locales: Paris, France, Riviera
Characters Discussed
Cécile (say-SEEL), the narrator, a seventeen-year-old girl who is spending the summer in the south of France with her father and his mistress. Just prior to the vacation, she had failed her baccalauréat, the state exam that ends the French secondary school cycle and symbolizes a degree of social as well as academic respectability for the student who passes it.
Raymond, the narrator’s father, a seductive, forty-year-old widower whose overwhelming charm appears alternately as a strength and a weakness. Cécile loves her father precisely for...
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