Françoise Sagan
Françoise Sagan (actually Françoise Quoirez; born June 21, 1935 in Cajarc, department Lot, † 24 September 2004 in Honfleur, Calvados ) was a French writer and for many years France's most successful best-selling author. Several of her novels have been filmed. Your pseudonym refers to the Duke of Sagan, a character in a novel by Marcel Proust.
Life
Françoise Sagan was the daughter of a wealthy bourgeois family of industrialists. She became known for her first book, Bonjour tristesse, which she wrote in the time of their literature studies at the Sorbonne in Paris at age 18 and published in 1954. The novel about a 17- year-old who urges during the summer holidays in the Mediterranean two mistress of her father from his life, sparked with very liberal for its time descriptions of a major scandal and made known Sagan. She was awarded the Prix des Critiques for it.
The book is written in seven weeks was a bestseller. Within five years, four million copies were sold in 22 languages worldwide.
Sagan's work includes more than 40 novels and plays, including: Aimez -vous Brahms? ( "Do you like Brahms? ", 1959), Les Nuages Merveilleux ( " The wonderful clouds", 1961), Un orage immobile ( " A standing thunderstorm ", 1989), Les Faux Fuyants (1991) and Le Miroir égaré ( " The erring mirror ", 1996). Among her ten plays Château de Suède (1960), Les Violons parfois (1961 ), La Robe Mauve de Valentine ( 1963), Bonheur, impair et passe (1964) and Le Cheval évanoui ( 1966). In 1987 she published a biography of Sarah Bernhardt. She also wrote the dialogues for Claude Chabrol's film Landru (1963).
Sagan also published two volumes of memoirs under the titles Avec mon meilleur souvenir (1984 ), in which they, Tennessee Williams, Orson Welles, Rudolf Nureyev, and Jean -Paul Sartre moving, haunting portraits dedicated to Billie Holiday, and ... Et toute ma sympathy (1993).
In 1957 she suffered a serious car accident, after which the path began in the lifelong drug addiction. The author first married publisher Guy Schoeller, after her divorce, the sculptor Robert Westhoff, with whom she had a son. This marriage was divorced again. Intense and inspiring contacts she used to François Mitterrand, Juliette Greco and many others.
In the 1990s Sagan was sentenced several times for drug offenses and tax evasion to probation and fines. Most recently, she was sentenced in 2002 to probation, because they ( the equivalent of 830,000 euros ) had not taxed alleged consultancy fee of a straw man of Elf Aquitaine 4 million francs.
Sagan died at the age of 69 from a pulmonary embolism.
On January 1, 2009 in the German cinemas, the film Sagan ran with Sylvie Testud in the lead role, which presents a biography of her life. The theatrical version was shortened to just under two hours version of the originally planned as a two-part TV film with a running time of over three hours, the TV channel arte 27 August 2010 for the first time fully aired on German.
- Bonjour tristesse. Ullstein Verlag, ISBN 3-550-06766-6 (original edition: Paris 1954, German translation by Helga Treichl: 1955 )
- Un certain sourire. Quatre nouvelles, 1955. ("... A certain smile ", translated by Helga Treichl, Klett 2000)
- Dans un mois, dans un an, 1956. ( " In a month, in a year," translated by Helga Treichl )
- Blanche et Ophélie, 1957
- Aimez -vous Brahms? In 1959. ( "Do you like Brahms? ", Translated by Helga Treichl )
- Château de Suède, 1960 ( " A Castle in Sweden," translated by Helga Treichl and Maria Dessauer )
- Les nuages merveilleux, 1961 ( " The wonderful clouds", translated by Helga Treichl ) (ISBN 3-548-02492-0 )
- Chamade, 1965 ( Publisher René Julliard ), ( " Chamade " ad Franz transmitted by Elisabeth Schneider, Ullstein Verlag, 1966, 159 pp. ) ( out of print)
- La garde du coeur, 1968. ( " The Keeper of the Heart" )
- A little sun in cold water, 1969
- Bruises on the Soul, 1972
- Un profil perdu, 1974. ( " A lost profile " )
- Le Lit Defait, 1977. ( " Edouard and Beatrice" )
- A dream of Senegal, 1980
- The smile of the past, 1984
- De guerre lasse, 1985. ( "Burning Summer" )
- Un sang d' aquarelle, 1987
- The silken fetter, 1989
- The outing, 1991
- Un chagrin of passage, 1994. ( " And to the heart" )
- Derrière l' épaule, 1998. ( "My look back " ) ISBN 3-550-08314-9