Do you like Sagan...

Author: (French) Darson / Lin Quanxi / Zhang Wei
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Publish Date: 2005-02-01
Features: She was a famous melancholic beauty at the age of 18, a carefree and unrestrained sprite, a playboy who saw through the world, indulged in life, and fought for her beauty. She was like "a ray of sunshine in cold water." She never won the Goncourt Prize or became a member of the Académie Fran?aise. She avoided fame, but she was the beloved of the French, Sagan, because she exuded an eternal charm of playfulness. Her novels are bright, concise, elegant, and beautifully written, full of musicality and poetry, with a faint melancholy, a captivating and yearning sadness, and extremely charming. This young, beautiful, wealthy, vibrant writer, who became famous at the age of 18, squandered her youth and life. She regarded love as a "pathological obsession" and frankly admitted that her love could last "three or four years, but no longer." Like the characters in her books, she saw through the world, indulged in life, sought sensory stimulation, and enjoyed herself recklessly. She once told the police, "I believe I have the right to self-destruct, as long as it doesn’t harm others." Her unusual friendship with former French President Mitterrand further added a special halo to her mystery. Sophie Darson spent three years interviewing, reading, and traveling along Sagan’s footsteps, outlining Sagan’s mystery—the mystery of freedom at any cost. In the darkness, I gently and endlessly called this name. Then something surged into my heart. I closed my eyes and greeted it with its name: Hello, melancholy.