About this title: The French Riviera: home to the Beautiful People. And none are more beautiful than Cecile, a precocious seventeen-year-old, and her father Raymond, a vivacious libertine. Charming, decadent and irresponsible, the golden-skinned duo are dedicated to a life of free love, fast cars and hedonistic pleasures. But when Raymond decides to marry, he lets ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Dell Publishing
Date Published: 1967
Description: Grade: C- Catalog: Romance General Synopsis: 127 pages. The stunning novel of modern love, ageless desire...and a sensitive young girl who found herself too soon a woman...... read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780066211695ISBN:0066211697
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Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Dell
Date Published: 1967
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Nice soft cover, lightly read, shelf wear to cover, creases on spine, small tear on bottom of front cover along spine, aging to pages, light water mark on bottom corner of first 12 pages near spine, stk #2302sl7. 127 p. read more
Description: Fair. Cover scuffed, bottom corner front cover clipped off, book water damaged, back cover side edge worn off, pages legible and easy to turn. read more
Edition: Reprint Used
Binding: S Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Dell Publishing Co., Inc., New York
Date Published: 1967
Description: Good-Cheap Reading Copy. Mass Market Paperback Creasing and wear to wraps and to cocked spine, pencil scribble on front wrap, pencil scribbles on inside wraps, browning to text. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Date Published: 6/17/2008
ISBN-13:9780061440793ISBN:0061440795
Description: Fine. 0061440795 Ships next business day. NEW/UNREAD! ! ! Text is Clean and Unmarked! --Be Sure to Compare Seller Feedback and Ratings before Purchasing--Has a small black line on bottom/exterior edge of pages. May have light shelf wear to cover from storage, if any. read more
Description: Dell, no date / 1957. Two separate books. 1st Mass Market paperback editions. Translation not attributed on Bonjour / Certain translated from the French by Anne Green. Very Good+ /Good-. Bonjour is bright, square, clean and tight. Certain has a few pages bound so that they extend beyond the fore-edge of the cover and other pages, and the binding seems brittle and tender. ISBN: B000GLCDHG Two separate volumes together, saves on shipping. read more
"J'imagine après avoir lu ce livre que Françoise Sagan devait être une jeune protégée de Marguerite Duras. Je ne sais si c'est vrai. Mais ceux qui me connaissent comprendrons mon opinion par rapport à ce livre. En plus je l'ai lu avec un mal de crâne en une heure et demi (même si il me reste dix pages mais je sais quoi en dire) . Et je déteste lire des livres rapidement..
Sinon en juin dernier je suis allé voir Sagan au cinéma, il était très long, trop même. Mais je vous le conseille tout de même, en deux parties ça doit être regardable."
"Here's another book published by an 18-year-old that doesn't suck. Which is both wonderful to see, but also painful. Most 18-year-olds are plain insufferable.
In any case, the story is about 17-year-old Cecile, a young French girl about to become a woman. Her father is quite the ladies man, being widowed yet quite, erm, experienced. Cecile, though still young, tries her hand at wooing men not much younger than her father. Freudian, yes. Cecile gets along smashingly with Elsa, one of her father's relations, who is fantastic and fashionable. The summer progresses nicely until Anne enters the picture, a more cultured and refined woman who steals Cecile's father's heart. As time goes on Cecile realizes that Anne has a good chance of taking her father from her, and in a fit of naivety and childishness tries to push the sensitive Anne out of their lives.
This is one of those books with a nice moral, like, "Careful what you wish for" or "Don't meddle in the affairs of others" or along those lines. Sagan was a young woman herself when she was first published with this book, and this is a short and simple book. This is not to say it's superficial in any way. In fact I imagine Sagan probably had a lot of stories in her and I look forward to checking them out, if for no other reason than to see how Sagan grew as a writer as she herself became an adult."
"One of the most amazing things about this novel, to me, is that it was written when the author was only about 17 (and published in 1954 when she was 18). The story of young, motherless Cecile, who has spent her 16 years wandering in a bohemian-type existence with her widowed father, starts out quite innocent, but turns rather sinister as Cecile's emotions evolve. Raymond, Cecile's father, has always had plenty of women around, but his latest girlfriend, Elsa, a vivacious, 29-year-old redhead, is someone Cecile particularly likes. During one summer spent on a French beach, Cecile comes of age by becoming the lover of a young law student, Cyril. At this same time, Raymond dismisses the adoring Elsa in favor of 42-year-old Anne, a much more attractive and sophisticated woman who was once a friend of his late wife. The rest of the story focuses on Cecile's reaction to this new arrangement and how she plans to torpedo her father's new romance and bring their situation back around to where she liked it. Cecile knows her plan is unscrupulous: "Je me sentais dangereusement habile et, à la vague de dégoût qui s'était emparée de moi . . . " Her successful, but unfeeling, insensitive, and manipulative tactics will lead to tragedy and a sobering life's lesson. Sagan went on to write several other novels, but this one, simply because it is so amazingly sophisticated for the author's age is really a tour de force."
"Pues la verdad es que 'Buenos días, tristeza' ni me ha parecido tan malo como algunos dicen ni tan bueno como otros dicen. Reconozco que si lo hubiera leído en la postadolescencia probablemente me habría encandilado. Es cierto que es superficial y frívolo y luego tiene un final moralista que contradice esta superficialidad y esta frivolidad. Se nota que es un libro escrito por una chica francesita de 18 años algo repelente, pero no se puede negar que esta jovencita repelente, a pesar de todo, tiene encanto. 'Buenos días, tristeza' cuenta la historia de un verano que cambió la vida de Cécile. Cécile se crió en un internado por chicas de casa bien. Su madre murió y desde hace un par de años vive con su padre, un vividor con una buena colección de amantes más jovenes que él. Cécile y su padre pasan el verano en una lujosa casa de la Costa Azul no haciendo nada, con la compañía de una de las amantes jóvenes de su padre, a la que luego se unirá la mejor amiga de la madre difunta, una mujer madura e inteligente que no aprueba la vida frívola e irresponsable que llevan padre e hija.
En la primera parte Cécile es una postadolescente feliz, despreocupada y malcriada, pero ya está narrada con una nostalgia prematura por las cosas que se tienen que acabar perdiendo con el paso del tiempo. En la segunda parte Cécile sigue siendo malcriada pero ya empieza a intuir la tristeza, que básicamente se deriva del hecho de que ya no puede hacer lo que le viene en gana y tiene que empezar a actuar de forma responsable. Cécile crece ("madurar" es una palabra que le va diez tallas grande a Cécile) y crecer también significa empezar a orquestrar un plan para liberarse de las obligaciones que le vienen encima, como si fuera una marquesa de Merteuil de tercera regional. Crecer significa actuar mal y luego arrepentirse de ello, dudar, desesperarse por nimiedades, y tomar conciencia de una misma. LA segunda parte está narrada con un sentimiento de culpa prematuro por lo que ocurrirá al final. En el fondo es una novelita muy simple pero, quizás sea porque he visto bastante cine francés y siempre he tenido en mí un pozo de melancolía, el caso es que me identifico (y me regodeo) con la nostalgia, el sentimiento de culpa y la tristeza autocomplaciente que desprende este libro. Es un libro que no salvo ni por su estilo, ni su estructura, ni su complejidad, ni su trama; simplemente lo salvo por la sensación melancólica que me produce."
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