A novel of lost love set in Paris in the 1960s by one of France's most famous novelists; richly translated and with an afterword by Douglas Hofstadter
As a teen-ager, Françoise Sagan (1935-2004) rocketed to world renown with her Prize-winning and best-selling novel Bonjour Tristesse. She went on to write many other successful novels, including A Certain Smile and Aimez-vous Brahms, as well as numerous plays and memoirs. Douglas Hofstadter is best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning book Gödel, Escher, Bach. Among his more recent works are Le Ton beau de Marot, a verse translation of Alexander Pushkin's novel-in-verse Eugene Onegin, and I Am a Strange Loop. He lives in Bloomington, Indiana.
Françoise Sagan (pseudoniem van Françoise Quoirez, 1935-2004) debuteerde in 1954 met Bonjour tristesse. Deze roman werd in 1957 verfilmd. Sagan ontleende haar pseudoniem aan de Prince de Sagan, een personage uit Op zoek naar de verloren tijd van Proust,...
