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Bonjour Tristesse is the first and most famous novel by Françoise Sagan, written in the summer of 1954 and quickly becoming one of the landmark texts of twentieth-century literature. With its fresh, daring, and concise voice, the novel shocked a generation and established Sagan’s reputation as a literary prodigy in France.

The story is told from the perspective of Cécile, a seventeen-year-old girl spending the summer with her widowed, pleasure-loving father in a villa by the Mediterranean. Their life, built on enjoyment, freedom, and emotional detachment, is disrupted by the arrival of a calm, intelligent, and morally grounded woman. Caught between the lure of pleasure and a growing sense of guilt, Cécile embarks on a subtle yet cruel game whose emotional consequences prove devastating.

Bonjour Tristesse is a short but profound novel about coming of age, morality, love, selfishness, and responsibility. Beneath its seemingly simple surface and sun-drenched summer setting lies a deep psychological tension and a quiet tragedy. This new pocket edition (2024), with a preface by Philippe Besson, offers a contemporary rereading of a classic that remains powerful and unsettling.