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Un Peu de Soleil Dans L Eau Froide
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Series: La Bleue
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ISBN10: 2234063582
ISBN13: 9782234063587
Publisher: Stock
Published: Nov 8 2021
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.58 Width: 5.32 Depth: 8.47
Language: French
ISBN13: 9782234063587
Publisher: Stock
Published: Nov 8 2021
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.58 Width: 5.32 Depth: 8.47
Language: French
Rights sold to: Bulgaria (Fama), China (Zhejiang UP), Italy (Barbès), Russia (Eksmo) Gilles is a brilliant Parisian journalist struck down by depression. He decides to leave the cynical, laughing capital to get some rest in his sister's house in the Limousin region. That is where he meets Nathalie Sylvener, a beautiful, sincere and uncomplicated woman who immediately falls in love with him.
She drops everything, moves into his small Paris apartment and gives herself to him wholeheartedly, without cynicism, only asking that he does the same. But Gilles, who believes he too is in love, realises that he finds this overly exclusive and intimate existence boring. Nathalie did warn him, though: she would stay with him until he asked her to leave.
Unusually for a book by Sagan, the female character is straightforward and honest, a woman with only one passion. The dialogues are pure and touching. In this simple yet complex novel, the reader recognises the music, phrasing and elegance that sadness gives people, the light, spirited, joyful yet melancholic style so specific to Sagan. A novel about the absolute love, the unique love that each of us dreams of.
A serious, lucid novel in which Sagan explores extreme feelings and pushes her characters into their innermost secrets, with the analytical acuity of a great novelist. A true rediscovery, a true pleasure.
Un peu de soleil dans l'eau froide was adapted for the screen in 1971 by Jacques Deray and Françoise Sagan.
Françoise Sagan is a major Twentieth Century author who triumphed with Bonjour Tristesse, followed by many plays and novels, all of which were successful. The success of Toxique, Des yeux de soie and Des bleus à l'âme, republished by Stock in autumn 2009, proves - if proof were needed - the fervent response Sagan still elicits. She wrote her own obituary for the Dictionary of Authors, compiled by Jérôme Garcin: Appeared in 1954 with a slender novel, Bonjour Tristesse, which created a scandal worldwide. Her death, after a life and a body of work that were equally pleasant and botched, was a scandal only for herself. Up until 2011, Stock will continue to publish all of Sagan's titles from the 1970s and 1980s.
She drops everything, moves into his small Paris apartment and gives herself to him wholeheartedly, without cynicism, only asking that he does the same. But Gilles, who believes he too is in love, realises that he finds this overly exclusive and intimate existence boring. Nathalie did warn him, though: she would stay with him until he asked her to leave.
Unusually for a book by Sagan, the female character is straightforward and honest, a woman with only one passion. The dialogues are pure and touching. In this simple yet complex novel, the reader recognises the music, phrasing and elegance that sadness gives people, the light, spirited, joyful yet melancholic style so specific to Sagan. A novel about the absolute love, the unique love that each of us dreams of.
A serious, lucid novel in which Sagan explores extreme feelings and pushes her characters into their innermost secrets, with the analytical acuity of a great novelist. A true rediscovery, a true pleasure.
Un peu de soleil dans l'eau froide was adapted for the screen in 1971 by Jacques Deray and Françoise Sagan.
Françoise Sagan is a major Twentieth Century author who triumphed with Bonjour Tristesse, followed by many plays and novels, all of which were successful. The success of Toxique, Des yeux de soie and Des bleus à l'âme, republished by Stock in autumn 2009, proves - if proof were needed - the fervent response Sagan still elicits. She wrote her own obituary for the Dictionary of Authors, compiled by Jérôme Garcin: Appeared in 1954 with a slender novel, Bonjour Tristesse, which created a scandal worldwide. Her death, after a life and a body of work that were equally pleasant and botched, was a scandal only for herself. Up until 2011, Stock will continue to publish all of Sagan's titles from the 1970s and 1980s.
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