Sagan's Series: Messy Bed
About This Novel
She thought she had rejected all illusions, but in fact it was all illusions that rejected her. "The Messy Bed" revives two characters from "One Month, One Year Later": actress Beatrice and provincial young man Edward. Five years after they broke up, they met again. Edward grew from an unknown young man to a playwright with a promising future, and Beatrice continued to pursue her career ambitions with her beauty. He loves her, she needs him - the actress' affair with the playwright arouses the curiosity of those around her. In the privacy of the living room, the power relationship between the two is ever-changing. Sagan uses "playwright" and "actress" to compare the two parties in love, sharply depicting a kind of modern love that combines narcissism, inferiority, self-deception and other human weaknesses. Nothing is more unreal than those so-called "realistic" novels - they are pure nightmares. It is possible to achieve certain emotional truths in a novel-the true emotions of a character-and nothing else. --Françoise Sagan
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