Sagan, Paris 1954, by Anne Berest
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Before Françoise Sagan the literary icon there was Françoise Quoirez, an eighteen-year-old Parisian girl, who wrote a novel and needed a publisher for it.
Sagan, Paris 1954, by Anne Berest- Amazon Sales Rank: #1642054 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-06-15
- Released on: 2015-06-15
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About the Author Anne Berest: Anne Berest is a Parisian author and journalist. She also writes for television, cinema and theatre. She was midway through writing her third novel when Françoise Sagan’s son, Denis Westhoff, asked her to write a book to mark the 60th anniversary of the publication of Bonjour Tristesse.Heather Lloyd: Heather Lloyd divides her time between Scotland and south-west France. She was previously Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Glasgow. She has recently re-translated and written notes for the new Penguin edition of Bonjour Tristesse.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. fascinating fictional memoir By A Customer Sagan, Paris 1954Anne Berest; Heather Lloyd (translator)Gallic Books, Sep 15 2015, $14.95ISBN: 9781908313898In 1954, teenage amies Françoise Quoirez and Florence Malreaux enjoy Paris. Whereas Françoise is a bourgeoisie expelled from several schools, Florence is a drop out. Françoise admires her BFF who as a Jewish child joined the French Resistance, but is rewarded by society as an outcast reminder of the atrocities that Vichy France prefers to forget. Ironically Florence respects her BFF for fearlessly questioning French bourgeoisie society for de jure sexism in which women cannot work or own a bank account without male approval (she had to accept cash for winning a literary prize) and not so discrete racism for mistreatment of Jews.To honor his late mom and her astonishing accomplishment on its Diamond Anniversary and her death ten years ago, Denis Westhoff commissions Anne Berest to write a special memoir in spite of the writer nee twenty-five years after the publication of Bonjour Tristesse. Depressed due to her separation from the father of her child, Anne analyzes data and interviews those who knew Françoise before she became the great “scandalous” author of teen angst alongside of Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye).This is an appealing fictional memoir that focuses on what happened in 1954 to transform bourgeois teen wannabe writer Françoise Quoirez into award winning author Françoise Sagan. I found Ms. Berest’s personal tsuris and healing interesting but somewhat disruptive of the fascinating look at the metamorphosis of a teen into Sagan. Still les lecteurs will appreciate this unique glimpse at an eventually influential writer just prior to her fame.Harriet Klausner
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Unusual look at a famous French woman author By wordsandpeace VERDICT: Unusual novel, written at the occasion of Bonjour Tristesse‘s 60th anniversary. It focuses on the last months that led Françoise Sagan to her resounding success, and offers interesting snippets in the life of an eighteen year old writer.The book was rather unusual for me, as I could not put it in a very specific genre category. The author Berest writes herself, It is to be neither a biography, nor a journal, nor a novel. Let’s just call it a story. p.24Personally, it actually felt a bit of the three at the same time, and I have to admit that was a very uncomfortable experience for me. But those days, book bloggers seem to focus on the necessity of diversity in reading, so that certainly fit the bill in that respect!She does so with entries following the calendar, like in a journal. She takes some snippets of life, some scenes as she calls them.For instance, the first scene opening the book is Cocteau going home by night after a New Year’s Eve party. He sees two girls walking and laughing, that’s Françoise and her friend Florence Malraux.Anne Berest met with Florence Malraux, still alive, to get more information about her best friend Françoise. As I had not read any biography of Sagan, I found some of these testimonies and memories fascinating.Françoise et Florence were both wartime children. Florence is Jewish and her family was very involved in the Resistance. Because of some tragedy in her very bourgeois family previously to her own birth, Françoise was a spoiled kid who got everything she wanted and was allowed anything, with a lot of drinking and partying in a cocoon milieu, not unlike her heroine Cécile in Bonjour Tristesse.They both shared a love of literature and remained close friends all their life.When Françoise Sagan (by the way, as you may know, this is a pseudonym –there are nice pages explaining how and where she found this name) submitted her manuscript, she knew it was going to be a success. And it did, overnight, with basically no publicity. But sex and levity of life, especially under the pen of an eighteen year old writer, is publicity in itself. Berest does mention the aspect of scandal, but again only in passing. Because of the close connection between the scandalous dimension and the success of the book, I think it would have been justified to write more about it.The book mentions Sagan’s connection with many authors of her time. It was a rich potential dimension, but I had to keep reminding myself the book was not supposed to be a biography to avoid my feeling of frustration at not knowing more; or at suddenly realizing a scene she just mentioned (the meeting between Sagn and L’Abbé Pierre for instance) was total fictional invention! At least, the author was honest at saying so afterwards.Berest introduces autobiographic elements, reflecting on her own writing of this specific book, observing herself writing it, and sharing about her struggles at it. She speaks about her own love or rather non-love life –she just separated from her husband, and considers this writing experience as a comfort against grief. She has a very dark and pessimistic view of love.Sagan did write many more books after her first, alas not mentioned of course in Berest’s novels as it’s only about a few months in 1954.It might be interesting to read a biography, but if you prefer a quicker experience, Berest’s book will give you a few valuable snippets, as long as you remember this is not a biography!Berest was contacted by Françoise Sagan‘s son to write a book on his mother on the occasion of the 60th anniversary (2014) of the publication of Bonjour Tristesse.She chose to focus on the months leading to the publication of that novel, showing the progress from the book as a manuscript to the book as an award winner (Le Prix des Critiques), and “cataloging the various stages in the life of a budding author”.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. INSUFFERABLE This has to be one of the worst books I have read in my life By Anne L. Wakefield INSUFFERABLE This has to be one of the worst books I have read in my life. The author just uses Francoise Sagan as a pretext to interject herself in the plot with insipid commentaries about her own process of writing. There is no research, and all you get is "I would imagine that Sagan ... " or "Let us imagine ourselves in Francosie's place." The tone is pedantic and self-important. Berest should be ashamed of herself for pretending to deliver an biography of Sagan and instead forcing herself on the reader with her absolutely meaningless life and bland pretentious comments. I usually give away the books I do not like, but I will throw this one in the garbage can, since it would be sadistic to have someone else suffer through it trying to find some substance.
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