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

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