A little sun in cold water. Stray
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A little sun in cold water. Stray
9.99 €
Françoise Sagan is a strange star of French literature, an invariably modern classic outside of any modernity. She wrote her stories about love in the void, where there are no events in the world, but there is always a pleasant pastime, under the influence of Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialism. Her stories are clearly inspired by Maupassant. In part, she is Salinger's literary sister, the creative ancestor of Sally Rooney: the microscopic movements of the soul have always interested both her and her characters much more than any external events and personal actions. And at the same time, in Sagan's real life there was room for scandals in the gossip columns, and gambling, and stormy love, and a very voluminous reality - for example, the Parisian events of 1968. She lived as she pleased in a world where women were still relegated to the boring, narrow, subordinate role of "ornament," and all her heroines subtly or openly rebel against such casting: pretending to play by the rules, sometimes getting carried away and even beginning to sincerely believe in their own game, they undermine the imposed laws by the fact that they are constantly very clearly aware of them.
This collection includes "A Little Sun in Cold Water" - one of Sagan's most celebrated novels, a chronicle of tragic love and inevitable betrayal, and "The Stray," a story about the unexpected adventures of an inconspicuous person, mired in routine, whose life and ideas about himself are turned upside down when he accidentally finds a treasure - and even more than one.
This collection includes "A Little Sun in Cold Water" - one of Sagan's most celebrated novels, a chronicle of tragic love and inevitable betrayal, and "The Stray," a story about the unexpected adventures of an inconspicuous person, mired in routine, whose life and ideas about himself are turned upside down when he accidentally finds a treasure - and even more than one.
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