Shoulder: Sagan's final confession

Author: (French) Fran?oise Sagan
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Publishing Date: 2006-11-01
Features: Rereading my past works, I sometimes feel embarrassed and at other times proud of myself, a bit carried away. Fortunately, these emotions were not revealed. Rather, it was precisely because of creating this work that I immersed myself in an indescribable and incomparable happiness: I stayed in the small village by the Lot River from my past, where the sky was always extremely cold and beautiful, the fire in the hearth at the foot of the bed burned all night, occasionally crackling. Every blade of grass and every tree here made me feel incredibly happy, warming my heart. I wanted to rediscover everything from the past. I wanted to learn how to live again, without any age limit. As the saying goes, what we learn throughout our entire lives is how to live. This book is Fran?oise Sagan's reflection on her career as a novelist in her later years, and it is her only work and her last one written about herself. The most outstanding part of this book is Sagan's interpretation and evaluation of her own works, especially her concise summaries of the plots and themes of her works and her unique analysis of the characters. Fran?oise Sagan, the French female writer who became famous in France and the Western world with her novel Hello, in the 1960s, has long been one of the most captivating figures in French literature. This book is Fran?oise Sagan's reflection on her writing career in her later years. The author arranges the works in chronological order of publication, weaving together her reexamination and understanding of literature, writing, the times, and life through her numerous novels. The writing continues to embody Sagan's signature simplicity, magic, and special charm.