Her father is rich and secure in his work, loves women and partying, wild nightlife and rather shallow pleasures, eating, drinking, making merry and making love as often as possible with as many lovely women as he can. They live the life of carefree bohemians and both love it. Her mother had died when she was just a tiny child. She has lived with her father for the past three years and before that she was in a convent school for the bulk of each year, spending the summers with him in Paris. The tale is narrated by Cecile who is the same age as the author, just 17.
This is, indeed, the tale of two bohemian people. However, the novel wears well and is just as powerful and exciting as it was 60 years ago. It was seen as a brilliant first novel by a very young Francoise Sagan, a bit scandalous because of the bohemian nature of the lives of the two main characters and also thought by many to be “typically French.” New York: Ecco from HarperCollins Publishers, 2001īonjour Tristess (Hello Sadness) created a great sensation when published in Paris in 1954 and released in English in 1955. Book review - By Francoise Sagan – BONJOUR TRISTESSE Reviews of Nobel Prize winner
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