Sagan, Françoise (Vol. 3) | Sagan, Françoise 1919–
Sagan, Françoise 1919–
Ms. Sagan, a French novelist, is best-known for Bonjour Tristesse, a novel that was considered mildly shocking in its time, and won for its author the Prix des Critiques in 1954.
The irony now is that we can hear—every word; and every word is precisely articulated and justly placed. As the glass coach rolls by with Sagan inside, we are auditors of a series of low-toned but fluent and exactly calculated monologues…. What has escaped most people's ears is that they are works of art….
Good or bad, Sagan can't be ignored, a salience which seems so to irritate the intellectuad that, being obliged to deal with her, he deals carelessly….
Sagan's world contains hardly any objects. Never was a writer more free from the tyranny of the thing in itself (or in its associations or its symbolic value). There is weather, but scarcely vegetation—only the few trees necessary to be agités or...
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