Things change, however, when Anne, an old friend of Cécile’s mother appear at the villa. Because Raymond has no intellectual interests, instead spending his time meeting women and socialising, Cécile in turn doesn’t show any interest in her studies, instead spending her time achieving a sexual eucducation from Cyril, the student in the villa next door. In the first story, Bonjour Tristesse, we meet seventeen-year-old Cécile who enjoys a life of laziness on the French Riviera with her father, the philandering Raymond, and his new mistress, the superficial Elsa. I’ve just paid two visits with this collection by one of France’s finest young writers. Besides, it’s much cheaper to travel by book.
It’s not somewhere that holds a great deal of appeal for me, despite the wine flowing like water through the countryside.
“This strange new feeling of mine, obsessing me by its sweet languor, is such that I am reluctant to dignify it with the fine, solemn name of ‘sadness’.”ĭespite it only being a short boat ride away, I’ve never been to France.
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