![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a lovely book for the summer, best read on a lazy afternoon in the sun with a cool drink by your side. While I didn’t love A Certain Smile quite as much as Tristesse, I did enjoy it a great deal. In summary, A Certain Smile is the bittersweet story of a young girl’s ill-fated love affair with an older married man, one that epitomises the emotions of youth complete with all their intensity and confusion. (You can read my additional post about Heather Lloyd’s recent translation of Bonjour Tristesse here). This year I was keen to read her follow-up, the 1956 novella, A Certain Smile – this time in the Irene Ash translation which was rushed out in the same year. Last summer, I read and adored Bonjour Tristesse, Françoise Sagan’s seminal novella about love, jealousy and desire – in essence, the games a young girl plays with other people’s emotions. ![]()
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