![]() Here is Lucile, going to sleep alone the day before she first spends a whole night with her lover: "she felt so utterly fulfilled by life, she experienced such a sweetness, stretched on this bed and slowly encircled by shadow, she so much approved of the idea that the earth was round and life was complex that it seemed to her that nothing at all bad could happen to her." It's for these instants of contented communion with the self, as much as for her wit or acuity when she writes about love, that I read Sagan. ![]() Those strange, private impulses of joy not quite connected to the outer existence we lead bring on her most tender moments. It was adapted into a 1968 movie starring Catherine Deneuve and Michel. The aloneness of each person, even in love, is her real subject. La Chamade is a 1965 novel by French playwright and novelist Franoise Sagan. ![]() Ache (first published under the name La Chamade) from the original French. Rather than eulogising love, she anatomises it, in long, extraordinary sentences of clause after clause punctuated only with commas, that her translators often try to correct a mistake, for the original beautifully renders the self-justifying, self-deceiving modulations of thought. Franoise Sagans That Mad Ache: A Novel / Translator, Trader: An Essay. ![]() She's often dismissed as trivial or sentimental yet though her subject matter is the love affairs of well-off, nonchalant people, her treatment is scrupulous, even cold. ![]()
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