With each reading we have read, the easier and more enjoyable they are. I wonder if I’m getting better at reading translated works, as I originally found them tricky to digest, or if they are simply more interesting or are written using easier language. Perhaps for this one, it’s the fact that the narrator is […]
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This week I chose to read Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan, which was a novel about the relationship between a daughter and her father, Raymond, along with Anne, who is a woman he plans to marry. Firstly, I found it was quite odd that Cécile “knew his need of a woman” (6) and “his fancy […]
Reading Sagan’s Bonjour Tristesse felt like riding a playground swing. For me this book was full of an ongoing internal contrast in Cécile’s mind between admiration and resentment towards Anne. On one hand, the difference that Cécile and her father had from Anne seemed to be highlighting class differences; Elsa, Cécile, and her father’s lives […]
This was a bit of an astonishing read, particularly how it ended. I’m struggling to find the symbolism of it or what exactly Sagan was trying to achieve in writing it. However, what stood out to me was the contrasting ebb and flow of Cécile’s impulsivity and analytics that seemed to be a mirror of […]
I didn’t expect to feel very much while reading Françoise Sagan’s Bonjour Tristesse, but I did. I felt frustration both with and for the characters throughout most of the novel; I felt confusion and curiosity with each change of Cécile’s feelings towards Anne; and by the end, I mainly felt something like pity for Cécile and Raymond […]
Bonjour Tristesse was a very interesting read. It’s about Cecile and her relationship with her father as he falls in love with Anne, the woman Cecile believes threatens their free and youthful way of living. All this is to disguise the sense of instability has within herself, with the thought of losing the only other […]
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This week I read Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan. This book was not my favourite as I found almost no redeeming qualities in any of the characters. I tried to sympathize with Cecile over her actions. She had grown up … Continue reading →
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“Bonjour Tristesse” was exactly the type of novel I was expecting to read in this course. A series of romances intertwined with family drama and a backdrop of summer, it felt like a classic French story. But wow, did this book make me uneasy… Right from the beginning, I found Célie’s relationship with her father … Continue reading “Thoughts on Sagan’s “Bonjour Tristesse””
After the class discussion on Thursday talking about the first page of Nada for most of the class I was curious to fully analyze the first page of Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan. I noticed how the main character, Cécile started off by “I have known boredom, regret, and occasionally remorse, but never sorrow” (Pg. …
Sagan’s “Bonjour Tristesse” centres around, a 16 year old girl who is on a summer vacation at the French Riviera with her father and and the events that unfolded. The book begins with the idle 16 year old basking in … Continue reading →
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