Francoise Sagan

See also: Sagan

Francoise Sagan , of her true name Francoise Quoirez , is a French writer, born the June 21st 1935 with Cajarc (Lot), died the September 24th 2004 at the hospital of Honfleur (Calvados) of a pulmonary Embolie. Often regarded as belonging to the New wave, it also contributed to the Co-writing of scenarios and film dialogs.

Biography

In 1954 the all-powerful director of the magazine It, Helene Gordon-Lazareff, asks for a series of articles to him on the Italy. It is not known if it benefits from it to see Vitelloni , the film of Federico Fellini which describes the young jet set and niaise of Rome, but one knows that it plays deferring south to north. The weekly magazine titrates its reports “Hello Naples”, “Hello Capri”, “Hello Venice”… This “Hello” becomes its claw.

Francoise Sagan, girl of easy industrialists, had published its first novel, Hello sadness in 1954, at the 18 years age, under her pseudonym chosen in the work of Proust.

Its favorite topics: easy life, fast cars, middle-class villas, sun, a mixture of cynicism, sensuality, indifference and idleness.

It consumed without moderation drugs (in February 1995, it had been condemned to one year of Prison with deferment and to a sorrow of fine for use and transfer of Cocaïne) and alcohol, had had in 1957 a very serious road accident, then in October 1985 a serious incident respiratory at the time of a voyage in Colombia with the president François Mitterrand, his lover.

In February 2002, it is the Tax evasion in margin of the Affaire Elf which is worth to him a one year sorrow of suspended sentence.

Francoise Sagan was divorced the editor Guy Schoeller, then of the American Robert Westhoff, with which it had had a son, Denis.

Its literary predecessor most obvious is Colette.

Works

Novels

Plays

  • 1960 - Castle in Sweden
  • 1961 - Violins sometimes
  • 1963 - the mauve Dress of Valentine
  • 1964 - Odd Happiness and Passes to
  • 1966 - the Splinter
  • 1966 - the Horse Disappeared
  • 1970 - a piano in the grass
  • 1978 - It makes beautiful day and night
  • 1987 - contrary Excess

Cinematographic work

See too

External bonds

  • Quotations
  • Whoswho
  • Saint-Marcellin cheese

Be-X-old: ФрансуазаСаган

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