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Je ne renie rien

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« Si tout était à recommencer, je recommencerais bien sûr, en évitant quelques broutilles : les accidents de voiture, les séjours à l’hôpital, les chagrins d’amour. Mais je ne renie rien. »

Françoise Sagan, dans ces entretiens donnés entre 1954, date de parution de Bonjour tristesse, le premier roman publié à dix-huit ans qui fit sa notoriété internationale, et 1992, ne renie rien : son regard sur l’amour, l’amitié, l’argent, l’écriture, les hommes et les femmes, les voyages, dessine une figure incroyablement cohérente et sincère à travers les années. Et le lecteur, sous le charme de cette conversation entre confidences et mots d’esprit, ne renie rien au plaisir qu’il y prend.

256 pages, Paperback

First published May 7, 2014

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Françoise Sagan

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Born Françoise Quoirez, Sagan grew up in a French Catholic, bourgeois family. She was an independent thinker and avid reader as a young girl, and upon failing her examinations for continuing at the Sorbonne, she became a writer.

She went to her family's home in the south of France and wrote her first novel, Bonjour Tristesse, at age 18. She submitted it to Editions Juillard in January 1954 and it was published that March. Later that year, She won the Prix des Critiques for Bonjour Tristesse.

She chose "Sagan" as her pen name because she liked the sound of it and also liked the reference to the Prince and Princesse de Sagan, 19th century Parisians, who are said to be the basis of some of Marcel Proust's characters.

She was known for her love of drinking, gambling, and fast driving. Her habit of driving fast was moderated after a serious car accident in 1957 involving her Aston Martin while she was living in Milly, France.

Sagan was twice married and divorced, and subsequently maintained several long-term lesbian relationships. First married in 1958 to Guy Schoeller, a publisher, they divorced in 1960, and she was then married to Robert James Westhoff, an American ceramicist and sculptor, from 1962 to 63. She had one son, Denis, from her second marriage.

She won the Prix de Monaco in 1984 in recognition of all of her work.

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November 24, 2019
Mais c’est difficile de faire de la littérature en France. Si on fait attention à la critique, on est tout le temps coincé. Il n’y a plus de bonne critique, en fait : rien qui vous aide à écrire. Tout y est subjectif, un article est un numéro d’auteur qui ne vous apprend rien... Mais je ne renie rien.
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September 5, 2025
Franchement des questions intéressantes, mais parfois un peu répétitive. J’adore la façon dont Françoise Sagan répond, elle a beaucoup d’idées, et surtout on voit qu’elle a un esprit très critique et poussé.
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January 29, 2016
Son ton, son écriture, sa personnalité, tout fait de Sagan une de mes auteures préférées <3
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