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| Sagan, Françoise |
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(fräNswäz´ sägäN´) (KEY) , pseudonym of Françoise Quoirez (kwär z´) (KEY) , 1935–2004, French novelist, b. Françoise Quoirez. She became famous with her precocious first book, Bonjour tristesse (1954, tr. 1955), a bittersweetly amoral portrayal of a sophisticated, disillusioned French society. Her other novels include Un Certain Sourire (tr. 1956), Aimez-vous Brahms? (1959, tr. 1960), and Un Sang d’aquarelle (1987, tr. Painting in Blood, 1988). | 1 | | See study by J. Miller (1988). | 2 |
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