{"id":20,"date":"2022-02-13T23:25:46","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T06:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/romancestudies\/?p=20"},"modified":"2022-03-31T13:06:06","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T20:06:06","slug":"week-6-my-thoughts-on-francoise-sagans-bonjour-tristesse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/romancestudies\/2022\/02\/13\/week-6-my-thoughts-on-francoise-sagans-bonjour-tristesse\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 6 – My thoughts on Fran\u00e7oise Sagan\u2019s “Bonjour Tristesse”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The text <\/span>Bonjour Tristesse<\/span><\/i> (1954) by Fran\u00e7oise Sagan for me was an exciting text, to say the least, and additionally kept me engaged till the very end. The novel discusses a relationship between a wealthy father and his daughter. The main character is a girl named C\u00e9cile who is 17 years old and changing her family dynamic. The change in this family dynamic is reflected at the start of the novel, where we are introduced to the characters and the father\u2019s mistress (Sagan, 3). However, it is essential to note that the father does consider the main character\u2019s feelings. Though the main character does reply that her father’s mistress, \u201cElsa would not get in our way\u201d (Sagan, 4). The father\u2019s relationships change based on a given amount of time, though the main character did accept it as the father\u2019s new lifestyle after he had lost his wife.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Though, there is something perverse about the mentality that C\u00e9cile has when it comes to being interested in other men. Such as, when there is a mention of a university student, she states that she \u201cmuch preferred my father\u2019s friends, men of fourty, who spoke to me with courtesy and tenderness,\u201d (Sagan, 5). The relationship that C\u00e9cile has with her father must be incredibly embedded in her due to C\u00e9cile losing her mother figure and growing up without her mother. That makes me wonder whether C\u00e9cile may lack attention from her father, and due to that, she prefers \u201cmen of fourty,\u201d (Sagan, 5). There is also the relationship that C\u00e9cile has with Anne, her mother\u2019s closest friend. Such as, when C\u00e9cile\u2019s mother had passed, it was Anne who \u201ctaught me something of life,\u201d while her father was managing his grief (Sagan, 7). Throughout the novel, we understand that Anne has intentions are not pure, as Elsa\u2019s feeling of being threatened could show that. There is also an aspect in the novel that C\u00e9cile takes another role. C\u00e9cile also takes on the role of an adult when it comes to her father. Such as when she states that her \u201cfather must be protected. He\u2019s nothing but a big baby,\u201d when it comes to Anne interrupting the lives of C\u00e9cile, her father, and Elsa (Sagan, 66). The protectiveness that C\u00e9cile feels could stem from the fact that since her father has multiple partners over a short period of time, C\u00e9cile is the constant female in her father\u2019s life. Therefore, there could be an understanding that C\u00e9cile must approve or agree to a relationship with her father and guide him to the right woman. This is also shown with C\u00e9cile\u2019s judgments of her father\u2019s mistresses.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Therefore a question that I would ask is: does it seem as though C\u00e9cile lacks affection or attention from her father? If so, how does this reflect their relationship?<\/span><\/p>\n

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-Muskan Shukla<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The text Bonjour Tristesse (1954) by Fran\u00e7oise Sagan for me was an exciting text, to say the least, and additionally kept me engaged till the very end. The novel discusses a relationship between a wealthy father and his daughter. The main character is a girl named C\u00e9cile who is 17 years old and changing her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89988,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,1],"tags":[32,7,33],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-childhood","category-uncategorized","tag-betrayal","tag-love","tag-sagan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/romancestudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/romancestudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/romancestudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/romancestudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89988"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/romancestudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/romancestudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/romancestudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/romancestudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/romancestudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/romancestudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}