![]() ![]() One of its advantages for Cécile is that her father, who has no intellectual interests, does not care if she studies or not. Raymond is an attractive, worldly, amoral man who excuses his serial philandering by quoting Oscar Wilde: "Sin is the only note of vivid colour that persists in the modern world." Cécile says, "I believed that I could base my life on it", and accepts their languorous lifestyle as the ideal of privileged status. ![]() Plot summary ġ7-year-old Cécile spends her summer in a villa on the French Riviera with her father Raymond and his current mistress, the young, superficial, fashionable Elsa, who gets on well with Cécile. ![]() The title is derived from a poem by Paul Éluard, "À peine défigurée", which begins with the lines "Adieu tristesse/Bonjour tristesse." An English-language film adaptation was released in 1958, directed by Otto Preminger. Published in 1954, when the author was only 18, it was an overnight sensation. Bonjour Tristesse (English: "Hello Sadness") is a novel by Françoise Sagan. ![]()
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