Bonjour Tristesse in comic book images
Françoise Sagan, Bonjour Tristesse
Questions on Bonjour Tristesse
1995 adaptation of Sagan’s novel
I found Bonjour Trisresse to be a fairly enjoyable novella. I really liked the way that I seemed to feel the emotions that I think the author meant to convey through the different parts of the text. I also really … Continue reading
When I finish reading Bonjour Tristesse, as a reader, I felt a variety of emotions, including anger, regret, and sadness. Maybe because of my upbringing and my education, I didn’t like this book very much. How did a nineteen-year-old girl come up with such a light-hearted storey? On such a lovely summer day, with beach, … Continue reading Sagan, Françoise. Bonjour Tristesse. Reply
The French female narrator, Cécile, seems to be intelligent and a bit immature. She explores her own first sensual and sentimental experience. The immorality and sensuality of the characters would seem less shocking today, but this is indeed a very daring and matter-of-fact account during a time when such things were unbecoming, especially amongst the […]
“Bonjour Tristesse”, or “Hello Sadness” in English, is a stable novella filled with romance and surface-level drama. The story is narrated by a young girl, Cecile, who is describing her summer vacation with her widowed father, Raymond, and his young girlfriend, Elsa. Her father, described as a charming or “playboy” type, ends up falling in …
Françoise Sagan’s Bonjour Tristesse was a very fun read, but I quickly grew to have conflicting feelings about the main protagonist. In fact, many of Cécile’s thoughts and actions reminded me a lot of Blair Waldorf from the tv series, Gossip Girl (the one that first aired in 2007 – not to be confused with whatever mess […]
blog#6 – taming Chaos — The Duality of Cécile was by far the most captivating aspect of Bonjour Tristesse. Françoise Sagan’s ability to portray both a wild, cunning jealousy and guilt-ridden empathy and sorrow is what makes the book such an interesting read. The raw honesty and (at times, hesitant yet inevitable) introspection of Cécile’s own […]
