Alex Christofi is a writer and editor living in London. His latest novel,
Let Us Be True, is set in 60s Paris. One of his ten top books on postwar France, as shared at the
Guardian:
Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan (1954)
Sagan was only 18 when her debut novel became a sensation. In the years before the yé-yé girls and sexual liberation of the 60s, it was remarkable for presenting an emancipated young woman – albeit one who has an oddly Oedipal relationship with her father – living the high life on the Riviera. The novel is jammed awkwardly into the form of a Wildean morality tale, but the sins are related with such gusto that no one ever remembers the moral.
Bonjour Tristesse is among
Helena Frith Powell's five notable books on glamour.
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the other entries on the list.
--Marshal Zeringue
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