Library

I've never known sadness, but now there's something wrapped around me like silk, separating me from everyone else in an annoying yet pleasant way. This is a novel by Sagan that is quite autobiographical. It tells the story of a neurotic and rebellious girl's growth story in adolescence. Seventeen-year-old Cecil is cute, narcissistic, and the epitome of unbridled amoral behavior. Freed from the constraints of boarding school, she spent a carefree two-month summer vacation with her new mistress in a beautiful villa outside Paris with her father, a handsome, promising young widower with wandering eyes. Cecile cherishes the free-spirited time she shared with her father while plotting her own erotic adventure with a law student. However, the arrival of her late mother's best friend intrudes into a young girl's world of joy. When a relationship begins to develop between the adults, Cecile and her lover initiate a plan to separate them... With unexpected tragedy.

In love, can one party be "better" than the other? In the cynical atmosphere of Paris, young journalist Gilles suffers from depression and his friends are helpless. So he went to his sister's house in Limoges to recuperate. There, he met Natalie, an innocent married woman. After falling passionately in love, they broke up with their respective partners and moved in together in a Paris apartment. Although in love, Jill feels uncomfortable with this passionate life, and Natalie is waiting for the day when he asks her to leave. The ending of the story is a typical Sagan-style "destruction". For the first time, Sagan created a heroine who did not lie or hesitate.

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

"Hello, Sorrow", author Sagan's posthumous work, was published for the first time. It is a typical Sagan style of ridicule: a baroque, unparalleled adventure, but with a rude undertone. You resist, you struggle, and depression becomes the appearance of your ordinary life. You become a puppet who commands respect, a vague respect that surrounds the groaning corpse. Sometimes it even becomes attractive to others. But if this person is interested enough in you, in your grief and rejection, if your rejection happens not to make him feel so humiliated, if he understands that a wounded heart is still beating, then everything can become a window to the terrace again, opened on a beautiful autumn afternoon. Then the first leaf that falls on your cheek is no longer a slap in the face from the past, but an incredible happiness that, no matter what name you give it, suddenly becomes irrefutable and incomprehensible. Sagan became synonymous with youth and petty bourgeoisie with "Hello, Sorrow". Nobel Prize winner Mauriac commented on her: "This 18-year-old charming beast, her literary talent burst out from the first page." Sagan himself also lived a novel, with a wanton life and unscrupulous love. After her death, her legend lives on. "The Four Seas of the Heart" is Sagan's posthumous work. After his death, Sagan's son discovered this never-published novel while sorting out his belongings. It was published for the first time in France or China.