Sagan, Françoise (Pseudonym of Françoise Quoirez) (Vol. 6) - Sagan, Françoise (Pseudonym of Françoise Quoirez) 1935–
Sagan, Françoise (Pseudonym of Françoise Quoirez) 1935–
Mlle Sagan, a French novelist and playwright, is the author of Bonjour Tristesse, a best seller in twenty languages. Brigid Brophy, who has called her "the most underestimated presence in postwar French writing," writes that Mlle Sagan is "making, creating, artistic gestures in the face of life, and elegance is of the essence of a gesture."
It has taken me years to come to appreciate Françoise Sagan's kind of smoothness. I pick up one of her books and think, how trite; why do they like her so much? Then against my puritanical will I get involved, slide over the shining marble floors on her seemingly effortless construction.
What a pleasure then, to pick up "Scars on the Soul" and find the heroine, Françoise Sagan herself, wondering also whether to get involved. (p. 6)
Lest dedicated Sagan fans fear that the precocious author of "Bonjour Tristesse" has drowned in...
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