That Mad Ache/Translator, Trader
Fran莽oise Sagan rocketed to international fame with her debut novel Bonjour, Tristesse. After failing her baccalaureate, she wrote this novel when she was eighteen years old and it became the novel that all her other works would be measured against. It has the trademark French style, lean and sober, with philosophical ...
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Latest Review: That Mad Ache by Francoise Sagan
Our latest review is Monica Carter’s piece on Francoise Sagan’s That Mad Ache, recently published by Basic Books and translated from the French by Douglas Hofstadter. Monica — who works at Skylight Books and runs the excellent Salonica — isn’t especially keen on this novel, or, to be more ...
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Sagan love triangle
A former magazine editor has caused a sensation in Parisian literary circles with a memoir exposing the 鈥渓ove triangle鈥 she shared with Fran莽oise Sagan and the famous novelist鈥檚 boyfriend. The relationship between Annick Geille, a former editor of French Playboy, and the wayward, waif-like Sagan was an open ...
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