Introduction

Bright personality F. Sagan, with youth becoming a literary star, has always attracted the interest of the public and the attention of critics. The perception of the writer as a kind of popular figure who reflected some characteristics of her time, determined the corresponding approach to the study of her work, in which Sagan is usually viewed as a unique sociological phenomenon, overshadowing creative look writers. In French literary criticism critical literature, dedicated to creativity Sagan, is represented by monographs by J. Mourgues, J. Urdain and J. Lamy, as well as numerous articles containing reviews of her works, devoted to the analysis of certain aspects of her work and the reasons for her popularity (P. de Boisdeffre, J. Gan, M Nadeau, F. Senard, P. Vandrome, A. Viilor).

A number of Anglo-American researchers who represent feminist literary criticism and examine the writer’s novels from the point of view of the embodiment of women’s issues in them (J. G. Miller, V. A. Lipton, M. V. Saint) approach the study of Sagan’s work from a completely different point of view -Onge).

IN domestic literary criticism Lately marked by the appearance of a number of articles in which there is a desire to reconsider the negative assessments of Sagan’s work made by literary criticism in the 50s and 60s and giving a rather distorted idea of ​​him. However, the literature devoted to Sagan’s work is mainly represented by prefaces and afterwords of an introductory nature, as well as mentions in articles and essays of a primarily educational or review nature (L. Zonins, Yu. Uvarov, L. Andreev, N. Rzhevskaya, I. Shkunaeva ), and researchers mainly consider individual early works writers, and Sagan's later prose remains unnoticed.

The purpose of this study is to present F. Sagan and her work not only as a sociological phenomenon, but also, by lifting the veil of the legend surrounding her, to see in her a writer, a personality, a woman, to define artistic value her creativity, its connection with literary tradition and place in modern French literature.

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Review of the biography of F. Sagan

At twelve o'clock in the morning on June 21, 1935, in the French department of Lot, in the town of Cajark, a girl was born into a family of hereditary factory owners and small landed nobles, who would later be called by fellow writers “a little charming monster” - Francoise Marie Anne Quare. Her pseudonym will be the name “Françoise Sagan”, which, barely worthy of birth, has become synonymous with a stunningly early rise and worldwide recognition.

Her father, Pierre Quaret, a successful engineer who graduated from the Industrial Institute of the North, traced his descent from the Spanish conquerors, and the ancestors of her mother, Marie Quaret (nee Lobard) walked behind the Holy Sepulcher, and the coat of arms of their family flaunts in Hall of Versailles Crusades. But Françoise herself - or Kiki, as her relatives called her - liked to assure that her grandmother on her father’s side was Russian, and on her mother’s side she was a descendant of St. Petersburgers. Since childhood, the future writer was tormented by a heightened sense of ownership towards loved ones, the fear of losing them - and, as a result, incredible jealousy, which terrified Françoise herself. And she transferred all these experiences to the pages of her novels.

Kazhark, hometown Françoise, was the center of the diocese and a stronghold catholic church, but essentially represented big village with a population of barely more than a thousand people, many of whom left the town for the winter. But Françoise, who had the habits of a tomboy, was not prone to despondency. In the company of older children, she played thieves and policemen, climbed trees and climbed rocks - while always being ahead, not afraid of anything and invariably getting involved in new adventures. Another side of her nature turned out to be a craving for nature. Contemplation of the surroundings fed the romantic fantasies of Francette and early years became a necessity for her. However, besides all this, little Françoise’s soul was more and more captured by the world that reading opened up to her. She secretly made her way to the attic, where there was a closet full of books, and disappeared there all day long, enchanted by unknown secrets and feelings.

With the outbreak of World War II, Pierre Quare was a reserve lieutenant. engineering troops sent to the Maginot Line, where he served regularly for ten months. After his demobilization in 1940, the Quaret family moved to Lyon, and Kiki went to first grade. The girl was sent to the Le Cour de la Tour Pitra school. At the same time, she took music lessons. The poor widow who taught Françoise did not have a piano. The woman used a keyboard drawn on cardboard, and Francette had to practice scales on this more than strange device in complete silence. This is how she became familiar with Mozart and Bach, Beethoven and Brahms. Paradoxically, Kiki fell in love with classical music and subsequently served her well: after the publication of Sagan’s fourth novel, “Do You Love Brahms?” sales of recordings by her favorite composers increased fivefold.

During the occupation of France, the Quaret family hid Jews in their home. Somehow German soldier mixed up the floors and knocked on Quare's door. Françoise Marie's mother answered him very politely, and when she closed the door, she almost fainted.

In 1946, the Quare family moved to Paris, and Kiki’s wanderings began in privileged Catholic schools not only in the capital of France, but also in Swiss resorts. However, the “little charming monster” did not fit into the prim framework of boarding schools, where the basics of education were good manners and the Bible, to the teachings of which Françoise, having become fascinated by the ideas of Sartre at the age of fourteen, lost interest forever.

From the age of 14, Françoise began to try her hand at prose and send her first works to publishing houses, but was rejected everywhere. The family did not attach any importance to their daughter’s attempts to write something. Marie Quare later said that Kiki read her works to her before sending them to magazines, but the mother only noted her daughter’s rich imagination. Françoise never passed the final exam, and she didn’t even try to. After leaving the boarding school in 1953, Kiki, with the approval of her parents, entered the philological faculty of the Sorbonne - University of Paris. However, the feeling of freedom and anticipation of new thrills encouraged her to carry out most his life not in classrooms and libraries, but at the tables of literary cafes. Bohemia, like a whirlpool, captured her entirely. Only among writers and artists, poets and musicians, in conversations until midnight, did she feel at ease. A company of free, extraordinary people - this was her world! Who knows if it was there that she heard the plot of the novel that made her a celebrity?

Having started her book, Françoise, in her own words, experienced a feeling of deep melancholy. In the morning she did not dare to re-read what she had written the day before - for fear of feeling humiliated if it turned out to be bad. She wrote down the outline of the novel in a notebook. Out of fear that someone would find the notebook in the dormitory, Françoise gave the manuscript to her friend for safekeeping, who locked the treasure in a safe. But soon the unfortunate woman suddenly fell ill and died, and the work of the aspiring author disappeared without a trace.

Due to failure in the English exam, Françoise had to forget about the Sorbonne. Now only literary achievements could calm their wounded pride and justify themselves to their family and friends. With great passion, Kiki began to restore the lost text and finished the novel in just over two months. On January 6, 1954, Françoise took it to two publishing houses at once: Juillard and Plon. Pierre Javet, literary director of the Juillard publishing house, was extremely surprised by the age and appearance of Françoise Quare - her weight was 49 kilograms, her height was just over one and a half meters, she was completely drowned in a huge cloak. Having cast a quick glance at the first pages, Javet immediately discovered completely new, unusual notes in the manner of narration of this girl, so young. Pierre Javet introduced the find to editor François Le Gris, and in the morning a report appeared on the desk of Rene Juillard, the head of the publishing house, that in this novel “life flows like a stream,” and the author dared to reflect, without false modesty, the psychology of his characters so vividly that It is unlikely that the reader will ever be able to forget them.

During a long conversation, Rene Juillard also inquired about the size of the desired advance. Françoise, who was a complete amateur in the publishing accounting system, ventured to name the amount of twenty-five thousand francs, but immediately became embarrassed and suggested that this was probably too much. Juillard offered her double the amount, but with the condition that the first circulation would not be three thousand copies, as is customary for the first publication, but five.

Pierre and Marie Quaret agreed to the publication of their daughter's novel without much enthusiasm and with the indispensable condition that the book would be published under a pseudonym. They considered their surname too famous to talk about it “over trifles.”

Novel "Hello, sadness!" appeared without a preliminary advertising campaign, but no one at the publishing house had even a shadow of doubt that the sale would be completely successful. The reality exceeded all expectations: the first few days after the start of sales showed that it was necessary to prepare a reissue. The additional circulation was set at three thousand copies. But soon a third reprint was required - already in twenty-five thousand copies, followed by another fifty. Within a year, the bestseller was published in an unprecedented circulation for France at that time - three hundred and fifty thousand copies! And all over the world, the total volume of publication of the book, translated into thirty languages, exceeded one million copies.

Nineteen-year-old Françoise received fantastic money as a fee - one hundred thousand dollars. Even Pierre Quare, who was considered a man with a very substantial income, could have earned such a fortune in only a few years.

After such success, everyone expected the next novel from Sagan. Some hoped that it would be better than the previous one. Others were willing to bet that it would be a failure. Françoise understood that her success needed to be consolidated with a new work, otherwise her fame would be considered accidental, and this would forever close her future path in literature. But the work did not proceed. In addition, during that period she began a whirlwind romance with photographer Philippe Charpentier. The writer's openly, almost ostentatiously displayed feelings shocked the audience. For Philip, it was an ordinary affair, and he soon left Françoise. Sagan sank into depression, which she tried to treat with alcohol, but this despair led her to a new novel, “A Vague Smile” (1956), which was met with new enthusiasm.

In April 1957, Françoise only miraculously escaped death. She was racing in a car at high speed drunk. The gendarmes will then scrupulously calculate that her Aston Martin drove along the ditch for more than twenty meters, then jumped and landed almost another four meters later. The doctors themselves were surprised how they managed to save her. Françoise remained in a coma for a long time, and near her in the hospital all the time there was a man who was twenty years older than the writer - Guy Scheller, director of special projects at the Hachette publishing house. They got married on March 16, 1958, but the marriage was short-lived. Françoise herself filed for divorce: she could not get used to quiet family everyday life. In addition, during the time spent in a hospital bed, Kiki became addicted to drugs. She soon overcame her addiction, but personal life Since then it hasn’t worked out that way. Having become pregnant, she married a second time - to sculptor Bob Westhoff. In 1962, the couple had a son, Denis, but soon this marriage was dissolved.

Françoise Sagan published nearly fifty books, many of which, such as Do You Love Brahms? and “A little sunshine in cold water", became global bestsellers. She also wrote several plays, which were successful and are still performed on stages around the world, including in Russia. But, despite the huge fees and fame of the Queen French literature, in recent years the writer lived in poverty and oblivion. She died on September 24, 2004 in a hospital in the Norman city of Honfleur - at the age of sixty-nine years, from a pulmonary embolism.

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What do you associate France with? Undoubtedly, most people will first name the books of Françoise Sagan. They have been read at all times; several generations have grown up reading them. Today they are not at all outdated, because love stories, stories of people experiencing genuine feelings cannot become outdated.

Françoise was an extraordinary person - both tabloid publications and serious biographers wrote about her. Many tried to unravel the reasons for her wild popularity, but no one succeeded, because only she herself knew the real Francoise - the way we see her in this book. “I don’t renounce anything. My image, my legend - there is no falsehood in them. I like to do stupid things, drink, drive fast. But I love many other things that are no worse than whiskey and cars, for example, music and literature... You need to write instinctively, as you live, as you breathe, without striving for boldness and “novelty” at any cost.” The great Françoise never betrayed herself, never regretted what she did, and never depended on the opinions of others. Perhaps that is why she became the idol of millions of people in everything...

The classic novel by the great French writer Francoise Sagan "Guardian Angel" is a poignant story of two unlike people and their attempts to find happiness. For more than forty years now these eternal stories make the hearts of readers all over the world flutter.
"The illusion of art is to make the reader believe that great literature very close to life, but in reality it’s the other way around. Life is amorphous, literature is strict."
Francoise Sagan

The woman they dream about, the woman they are crazy about, the woman who is richly supported and cared for, suddenly finds her love. True love, giving her meaning, happiness and confidence, as if a beautiful flower had emerged from under the gray dust and dirt.

New York is a city where there is a lot of air, straight as an arrow, blown by the wind so that you don’t feel any oxygen starvation, where the rivers - the Hudson and the East River - bend like two sparkling ribbons. New York vibrates day and night - under the gusts of sea winds, saturated with the smells of salt and gasoline during the day and drunk alcohol at night.

Love is a mystery, the veil over which people have been trying to lift for many centuries. Not everyone can experience true love, true passion, but only those who are marked by it live a full life.

Françoise Sagan has always been attracted to the world of the stage. She even tried herself as a director, but the role of a playwright brought her much more success.
All three plays published in this book belong to late period Sagan's creativity.
"A Happy Accident" is a paradoxical story about a coward whom everyone considered a hero.
"Piano in the Grass" is a comedy about trying to regain youth.

Françoise Sagan's novel "Woman in Makeup" again talks about love. About love, at the beginning of which neither He nor She knows what their meeting will lead to. Perhaps to a short and unsuccessful relationship, perhaps to a fit of passion that leaves nothing but shame. But it is no longer possible to take your eyes off each other and it’s scary to miss the opportunity for joyful coexistence, filled with light and tenderness.
The novel is published in Russian for the first time.

Françoise Sagan real name- Quoirez; 21.VI.1935, Cajar - 24.IX.2004, hospital of Honfleur, Normandy) - French writer, playwright, in 1985 awarded the Prince of Monaco Prize for her contribution to literature.
The action takes place in cold winter, the castle is surrounded by snow.

Here are three novels by the great Françoise: “Hello, Sadness”, “A Vague Smile”, “In a Month, in a Year” - novels with which the early and rapid creative path of the writer began and which, just like half a century ago, diverge enormously in circulation and light up the hearts of millions of readers around the world.

With a sweetheart, heaven in a hut? A woman who flutters easily and carefree through life, like a butterfly over a field strewn with flowers, gets to test this simple saying. So what is “more important”: carelessness and the habit of a happy, comfortable life in comfort and luxury, or love, the attraction of bodies and souls? Or is there just time for everything?

Her life was as colorful as her books: Saint-Tropez, expensive cars, drugs, casual relationships, throwing money away. At the age of 18, she published a novel about a student at a monastery boarding school leading an idle life, and became one of the most famous and wealthy authors in France. Many considered Sagan’s books immoral and immoral, others found in them a reflection of the era and fell in love with the young writer for the simplicity of her language and the skill of her psychological portrait.

Her prose is about love, loneliness, loss, idleness and sexual freedom. We invite you to study in more detail the main motives of the French author’s work.

Love

Love is the main plot driver in Sagan's novels. She is often unrequited, as in “A Vague Smile,” where the young man Bertrand suffers for the Sorbonne student Dominique, and she, in turn, yearns for his uncle. Passionate love at first sight binds the heroes of “The Signal to Surrender” Lucille and Antoine - young people who existed before their fateful meeting in the care of wealthy partners. But in the novel “Hello, Sadness!” the reader observes first love: his heroes Cecile and Cyril met during a vacation on the Mediterranean coast.

And I realized that I was much better suited to kissing a boy in the sun than to defend my dissertation.

“Hello, sadness!”

Sagan rarely names love. She would rather describe the wind on her skin, an accidental touch while dancing in a Parisian restaurant, conversations about Proust - after all, in real life We rarely talk about feelings publicly. If Sagan’s heroes confess their love, then most likely they are simply hiding the fear of loneliness, melancholy, boredom or thirst for revenge.

Loneliness

“Loneliness and Love” is the title of a book of interviews with Françoise Sagan. Perhaps this title fully describes the mood of her novels. The heroes are immersed in loneliness. Their loved ones do not understand them. They get bored at bohemian parties. They don't talk to their husbands. They change. They fall asleep in an empty bed. They flee the city to survive the pain. They realize that their life is empty and worthless, but they do nothing about it.

She was disgusted by these Sundays single women: a book you read in bed, trying in every possible way to prolong the reading, crowded cinemas, perhaps a cocktail or dinner in someone's company; and upon returning home, the bed is unmade and it feels as if not a single minute has been lived since the morning.

"Do you like Brahms?"

In “The Rumpled Bed,” a woman returns to her ex-lover after 5 years - even though she doesn’t fully understand why she needs this. The heroine of “Do you love Brahms?” Out of loneliness, she meets a young man who is 15 years younger than her. In “Magic Clouds,” a girl is bored in her marriage, cheats on her husband, but does not dare to leave him. Sagan dispassionately describes loneliness at its worst.

Sexual freedom

She followed Françoise Sagan scandalous fame: she changed husbands, lovers, and according to some rumors, even mistresses. She lived like the heroes of her novels, preferring momentary pleasures and rarely staying with someone for a long time.

Her friends advised her to change the situation, but she sadly thought that she was simply going to change her lover: it was less troublesome, more in the Parisian spirit, and very common.

"Do you like Brahms?"

Françoise's heroes rarely think about the feelings of others. They cheat. Three, or even four, love. They choose those who are much younger and those who are much older. They can sleep out of boredom or for money. Same-sex love is not alien to them.

Did it go? Gross? Not at all. Immorality in Sagan's novels is sensual, tender, fragile. Her language is extremely pure.

Money

Many condemned her for the fact that in her works she described exclusively the life of rich, spoiled people. “Yes, I love money, which has always been a good servant and a bad master for me. They are always present in my books, in my life and in my conversations,” said the writer, who made a huge fortune at the age of 18 from the bestseller “Hello, Sadness!”

Her characters are spoiled by money. They get bored in expensive restaurants, villas and casinos. They buy the love of young people and sell their bodies for money. They are ready to leave their loved one for a wealthier lover. It's so convenient for them. A little boring, but convenient.

She was having financial difficulties. Then they settled down and she immediately became happier. I really love women who are happy with money. Mademoiselle Alice shrugged her shoulders.

So you love everyone!

"Do you like Brahms?"

In each of her novels, Françoise sought to describe the emptiness of bourgeois society with its gigolos, cocottes and rich widows, and she succeeded.

Hedonism

Sagan's heroes live for today. They don't want to work and study. They prefer to drink, dance, spend their holidays in Cannes, and make love on a rumpled bed. They do not believe in God and know that they have been given one life. That’s why they devote it to momentary pleasures. In short, hedonism in its purest form.

To live, after all, meant to arrange things in such a way as to be as content as possible.

"Vague Smile"

In the stories of her characters, the writer embodied the mood of an entire era.

France

Sagan describes French society. The action of her novels takes place in Paris, on the Cote d'Azur, in Limousin - endless vineyards, mountains, quiet streets, the sound of the sea, tart wine. In "The Rumpled Bed," longtime lovers go out to dinner at a Parisian brasserie after a night of love. The heroine of “Tears in Red Wine” spends a huge amount at the Summer Casino in Nice. And in the novel “Farewell to Sorrow” a character has cancer; looking at the embankments near the port of Paris and the townspeople sunbathing in the September sun along the Seine, he goes to his mistress to report his approaching death.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, when the sun was shining with all its might, they, hiding in the shadows behind the glass of the terrace and feeling how it was raging outside, ordered two portions of strong drinks and, thanks to fatigue, desire and alcohol, felt like Fitzgerald's heroes. No one else saw or heard them, because that day Edouard and Beatrice were in the height of bliss all day long.

"Rumpled Bed"

Sagan recreates short sketches from the life of the French: they dine in cozy restaurants in Paris, walk on Champs Elysees, and spend the summer by the sea. As if this is not a book, but a light French melodrama with changing scenery.

Death

Love in Sagan's works often takes on tragic turns. In the novel A Little Sun in Cold Water, the heroine decides to commit suicide after learning that she is no longer loved. “Hello, sadness!” has a similar plot: young Cecile drives her father's girlfriend to suicide, provoking his betrayal. The surprise ending is "Goodbye Sadness": its hero learns that he has cancer and says goodbye to life until he learns that he was misdiagnosed.

She inhaled Roger's familiar smell, the smell of tobacco, and felt that she was saved. And that she died.

"Do you like Brahms?"

Even in novels where, at first glance, there is no tragic ending, the shadow of death covers the heroes. Refusal of love for them is often akin to death. As, indeed, consent to love. They endlessly think about the meaning of life, running away from reality. They dream of suicide, exhausted by idleness and idleness. They engage in self-destruction by abusing drugs and alcohol.

A student at a monastery boarding school, Cecile spends her summer holidays at her father's villa on the Cote d'Azur, has affairs and dreams of getting rid of her father's girlfriend Anna.

A 20-year-old law student at the Sorbonne falls in love with her boyfriend's uncle and spends her holidays with him in Cannes.

In a bohemian Parisian party, a love polygon begins between an actress, a writer, a director, literary critic, a young doctor.

49-year-old Paul is faced with a choice: stay with Roger, who has been cheating on her for many years, or go to 25-year-old handsome Simon, who has lost his head over her.

Frenchwoman Josée is married to a jealous American, Alan; she cheats on her husband, but does not dare leave him.

Lucille lives in the care of her wealthy lover Charles, but at one of the social evenings she falls in love with Antoine, the boyfriend of the rich lady Diana.

45-year-old Hollywood screenwriter Dorothy knocks down the young man Lewis and takes him to her home.

Fleeing depression, journalist Gilles decides to spend the summer with his sister in southwest France; He returns to Paris with the wife of a local official.

Eleanor and Sebastian are sister and brother who lead a riotous lifestyle at the expense of friends and lovers; they take turns sleeping with a wealthy woman for money.

Carefree Jose leaves her bored husband for a wealthy patron, Julius, although she is unable to respond to his strong love.

Actress Beatrice, accustomed to changing men, meets her ex-lover, whom she left 5 years ago, and decides to start an affair with him again.

At the height of World War II, Jerome arrives with his girlfriend Alice at a friend's villa so that she can seduce him and convince him to support the anti-fascist movement.

An elderly director of Russian-German origin, Kostya von Meck, shoots a film for Germany in occupied France and sleeps with boys and girls.

Musician Vincent married Laurence for convenience, but after 7 years of marriage he suddenly becomes rich and thinks about leaving his wife.

In June 1940, four aristocrats flee from Paris to Brussels, but on the way they come under fire and are forced to hide on a nearby farm.

Mathieu learns that he has lung cancer and does not have long to live; he visits his mistresses and colleagues, and later comes to his wife to inform him of his imminent death.

Journalist François decides to sleep with a 50-year-old theater owner in order to secure the production of a play belonging to his beloved Sibylle.

Biography

Born in the area of ​​Kazhar. The girl was superior to her peers in terms of intelligence, although she was very undisciplined. After failing in her studies (in 1953 she failed the entrance exam at the Sorbonne), at the age of 19 she became famous thanks to the publication of her first short story “Hello, sadness” (Bounjour, tristesse) (1954), which was a brilliant success in society and among critics . Sagan, whom François Mauriac called a “charming monster,” won a Critics' Prize for this novella, among such veteran authors as Jean Guitton. Sagan shocked teachers of the French middle class with her simple story of an underage girl, sensitive and immoral, deceived by her frivolous father along with his mistress whom she does not like, told in a fragmented and disillusioned style. This novella depicts, first of all, inner world Sagan herself, which has not changed since then: a secular inner world consisting of idle and superficial people in search of a more convincing reality than the world in which they live. This novella was considered not only a reflection of the undoubted sensibility of the era (clearly peculiar in its cheerful difference in the face of the literary arbitration decisions of other writers, for example Sartre), but also the beginning of a certain style of women's literature.

Sagan's fame came from her first story, “Hello, Sadness,” published when she was 19 years old. The story was translated into 30 languages ​​of the world and then filmed. This work was followed by other novels, and numerous short stories, plays, novellas, for example, “Do you love Brahms?” (), “A Little Sun in Cold Water” (), “Lost Profile” (), “Painted Lady” (), “Tired of War” ().

All works of Françoise Sagan are about love, loneliness, dissatisfaction with life; they are clear narrative style and the accuracy of the psychological drawing.

Françoise Sagan married twice. In 1958 for the forty-year-old publisher Guy Schueller, and then in 1962 for the young American Bob Westhoff, a pilot who changed the helm of an airplane to become a model. From his second marriage he has a son, Dani Westhoff.

While creating novels about fragile love, she herself continually became the heroine of scandalous gossip columns, calling herself a “playgirl.” In her life there were many scandals, unpaid taxes, strange marriages, car accidents, luxurious yachts, addiction to drugs and alcohol, conditional prison sentences, gambling- and at the end of her life, poverty, despite all the fees she received. Françoise Sagan died on September 24 from a pulmonary embolism.

Creation

Sagan's novellas were received favorably by an undoubtedly sophisticated audience, at first due to the folklore of the Latin Quarter, its vaguely existentialist climate, as well as the "objective" form of writing, more inspiring certain thoughts than persuasive. Her short stories, characterized by a small number of characters and brief descriptions, are distinguished by open consistency of intrigue, indicated by the scheme love triangle. The psychology of Sagan's characters is said to be rooted in that of Fitzgerald, but in him they are obsessed with their past, while Sagan's characters, such as Gilles in A Little Sun in Cold Water, understand that they have always lived in a fraudulent and boring world and do not return to their past. Of course, they are brilliant, this brilliance is primarily intellectual, but also egocentric. Moreover, despite the fact that Sagan was for a long time the subject of scandals in the press and showed throughout her life a clear will to free herself from all the norms, of course, created by her female characters correspond to the opinions and desires of men. After Hello, Sadness, other successful short stories appeared, all based on the theme of love, sadness and melancholy: A Vague Smile (1956); “In a month, in a year” (1957); “Do you like Brahms?” (1959) and "Magic Clouds" (1961). Her other works were “Surrender” (1965), “Guardian of the Heart” (1968), “A Little Sun in Cold Water” (1969), “Velvet Eyes” (1975), “The Rumpled Bed” (1977), “The Painted Lady” (1981), "The Getaway" (1991) and "The Disgruntled Passenger" (1994). Accused of adhering to fiction that is artificial and monotonous, Sagan has demonstrated an ability to work in other literary genres. For example, I wrote theater plays Violinists Sometimes Hurt (1961) and The Horse is Disappearing (1966), and also wrote a biography of Sarah Bernhardt entitled Dear Sarah Bernhardt (1987) and autobiographical works, such as "Blows to the Heart" (1972) and "With My Best Memory" (1984).

Novels

• Hello, sadness! / Bonjour tristesse, Editions Julliard, 1954.
• Vague smile / Un certain sourire, 1956.
• In a month, in a year / Dans un mois, dans un an, 1957.
• Do you love Brahms? / Aimez-vous Brahms?, 1959.
• Magic clouds / Les Merveilleux Nuages, 1961.
• Signal for surrender / La Chamade, 1965.
• Guardian angel / Le Garde du cœur, Editions Julliard, 1968.
• A little sun in cold water / Un peu de soleil dans l'eau froide, 1969.
• Bruises on the soul / Des bleus à l"âme, 1972
• Unclear profile / Un profile perdu, 1974.
• Rumpled bed / Le Lit defait, 1977.
• Pribluda / Le Chien couchant, 1980.
• Woman in makeup / La femme fardée, 1981.
• Unmoving Thunderstorm (When a Thunderstorm Approaches, 2010) / Un Orage immobile, 1983.
• And the cup overflowed / De guerre lasse, 1985.
• Fish blood / Un Sang d'aquarelle, 1987.
• Leash / La Laisse, 1989.
• Detours / Les Faux-Fuyants, 1991.
• Goodbye sadness / Un Chagrin de passage, 1993.
• In the foggy mirror / Le Miroir égaré, 1996.

Novels

• Velvet eyes / Des yeux de soie, 1975
• Blue wine glasses / Les fougères bleues, 1979.
• Music for scenes / Musique de scene, 1981.
• House of Raquel Vega / La maison de Raquel Vega, 1985.

Works for the theater

• Le Rendez-vous manqué (1958)
• Castle in Sweden / Chateau en Suede (1960)
• Les violons parfois (1961)
• Valentina's lilac dress / La Robe mauve de Valentine (1963)
• Bonheur, impair et passe (1964)
• The horse has disappeared / Le Cheval évanoui (1966)
• In the thorn bush / L"Écharde (1970)
• Piano in the grass / Un piano dans l'herbe (1970)
• Il fait beau jour et nuit (1978)
• The other extreme / L'Excès contraire (1987)

Biographies

• Dear Sarah Bernhardt /Sarah Bernhardt: Le rire incassable, biography, 1987.

Literature

• Delassin Sophie "Do you love Sagan? Translation from French T. V. Osipova. M.: LLC AST Publishing House, 2003. - 414 p.

Notes

Links

• Sagan, Francoise in the library of Maxim Moshkov

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Sagan Francoise- Francoise Sagan Date of birth June 21, 1935 Place of birth Qaryac, France Date of death September 24, 2004 Place of death Normandy Profession writer Genres ... Wikipedia

Sagan, Francoise- Francoise Sagan. Francoise Sagan (born 1935), French writer. Numerous novels, including Hello, Sadness (1954), Do You Love Brahms? (1959), A Little Sun in Cold Water (1969), Lost Profile (1974), ... ... Illustrated Encyclopedic Dictionary

Sagan Francoise- (Sagan) (b. 1935), French writer. Numerous novels, including Hello, Sadness (1954), Do You Love Brahms? (1959), “A Little Sun in Cold Water” (1969), “Lost Profile” (1974), “The Painted Lady” (1981), ... ... encyclopedic Dictionary

Sagan Francoise- Francoise Sagan (b. 21.6.1935, Cajarc, Lot department), French writer. Graduated from the Catholic Lyceum in Paris. S.’s first novels “Hello, Sadness” (1954, Russian translation 1974) and “The Likeness of a Smile” (1956) expressed the mentality of the part... ... Great Soviet Encyclopedia

SAGAN Francoise- Francoise Sagan (b. 1935), French writer. Rum. “Hello, Sadness” (1954, p. 1974), “A Vague Smile” (1956, p. 1981), “In a Month, in a Year” (1957), “Do You Love Brahms?” (1959, p. 1974), “Wonderful Clouds” (1961), “Signal... ... Literary encyclopedic dictionary

Sagan\ Francoise- (born 1935), French writer ... Biographical Dictionary France

Francoise Sagan- Date of birth June 21, 1935 Place of birth Karyak, France Date of death September 24, 2004 Place of death Normandy Profession writer Genres ... Wikipedia