Françoise Sagan

Person · Open Library

Born

21 June 1935

Died

24 September 2004

Works

189

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Film & TV

Writing · Cajarc, Lot, France

Françoise Sagan, born Françoise Quoirez, was a French playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. She is best-known novel for her first novel "Bonjour Tristesse" (1954), written when she was a teenager.

Known for

• Bonjour Tristesse, Hello Scandal: The Raunchy Book That Shocked France — Self - Writer (archive footage)2022
• Mitterrand, président culturel — Self (archive footage)2021
• A Night at the Opera2020
• Françoise sagan, l’élégance de vivre — Self (archive footage)2017
• Vadim Mister Cool — Self (archive footage)2016
• Les vendredis d'Apostrophes — Self (archive footage)2015
• Clive James' Postcard from — Self1989
• Nulle part ailleurs — Self1987
• 30 millions d'amis — Self1976
• Les Rendez-vous du dimanche — Self1975

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Female

Country

France

Active from

1935

Active to

2004

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

128

Total plays

1,531

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. FOLFIRINOX versus Gemcitabine for Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer

   · 2011 · cited 6,664x

2. Emerging applications of stimuli-responsive polymer materials

   · 2010 · cited 5,441x

3. Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

   · 2016 · cited 5,082x

4. The IASLC Lung Cancer Staging Project: Proposals for Revision of the TNM Stage Groupings in the Forthcoming (Eighth) Edition of the TNM Classification for Lung Cancer

   · 2016 · cited 3,709x

5. The complete sequence of a human genome

   · 2022 · cited 2,931x

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Quotes

• “Love is worth whatever it costs.”
• “For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.”
• “I don’t search for exactitude in portraying people. I try to give to imaginary people a kind of veracity. It would bore me to death to put into my novels the people I know. It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the “fronts” people assume before one another’s eyes, and the “front” a writer puts on the face of reality.”
• “Art must take reality by surprise. It takes those moments which are for us merely a moment, plus a moment, plus another moment, and arbitrarily transforms them into a special series of moments held together by a major emotion. Art should not, it seems to me, pose the “real” as a preoccupation. Nothing is more unreal than certain so-called “realist” novels — they’re nightmares. It is possible to achieve in a novel a certain sensory truth — the true feeling of a character — that is all.”
• “Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.”
• “I never make moral judgments. All I would say is that a person was droll, or gay, or, above all, a bore. Making judgments for or against my characters bores me enormously; it doesn’t interest me at all. The only morality for a novelist is the morality of his esthétique.”

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Official website

Link to the official site · 2,911 chars · not written by Vinony

Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Françoise

Gender

female

Citizenship

France

Place of birth

Cajarc

Place of death

Équemauville

Occupation

playwright

Employer

L'Express

Languages spoken

French

Native language

French

Notable work

Bonjour tristesse

Participant in

1979 Cannes Film Festival

Genre

essay

Official website

www.francoisesagan.fr

Image

Françoise Sagan 1954.jpg

Convicted of

tax noncompliance

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