![]() ![]() She has added another documentation to her reputation as a precise miniaturist who lucidly fosters a fond romantic delusion - that the French are so tough and realistic that they can be rational even about love." - Time Of her seven novels, La Chamade is one of the best and as perceptive as Bonjour, Tristesse. "Sagan knows how to play with the nuances of worldly boredom and the despairing thrusts of passion."These caveats are with Hofstadter's theory of translation, however his actual translation of La Chamade is brilliant, highly readable, thoroughly engrossing and very nearly everything Françoise Sagan could have hoped for in an English version of her novel." - Wayne Grady, Globe and Mail.*: refers to the 1966 Westhoff translation ![]()
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