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AIMEZ-VOUS BRAHMS . . (127 pp.)-Françoise Sagan-Dutton...
...some readers. Françoise Sagan's novels are of interest chiefly for the light they seem to reflect on their author. In Bonjour Tristesse, the light revealed a child passionately and exuberantly weary of the world, but now it shows an adult who seems tired of writing books. There is little in Author Sagan's latest (and fourth) novel worth a compliment or a damn, although readers with an ironic turn of mind may cherish the 23-year-old author's reference to "that incomparable love that comes with age." The story, hardly more than...
What Comes Naturally. Vinogradov became a buddy of one of France's richest capitalists, Marcel Boussac, lunched with Novelist Françoise Sagan, shot pheasant on the great Alsace estate of Socialite Jean de Beaumont. Recently, watching him move familiarly among the swarms of film stars, writers, ministers, generals, and artists at the Soviet embassy, Millionaire Boussac archly remarked: "There goes France's most fashionable ambassador...
They finally decided not to, and Barnes was sent to a German prison camp at Sagan. With the support of the senior American officer, he tried to counter-act Nazi propaganda by teaching a course in American institutions and organizing a mock election. "It was very significant to note that the difference in the prisoners' ability to make something out of the experience was not social or economic background, but education." The prison camp marked the beginning, Barnes says, of his great interest in education...
...nightclub inanities broadcast through the streets by loudspeakers. The six miles of beach at Le Lavandou were body-covered; the bodies were oil-covered; the oil, sand-covered. At bohemian St.-Tropez, with fewer than 1,000 guest rooms, some 20,000 tourists nevertheless found shelter. Françoise Sagan left for the relative calm of Normandy; Brigitte Bardot was pregnant. Saint-Trop has nearly as many candlelit cellar clubs as the Left Bank, and the vogue has spread along the coast as far as Nice, where the Gorilla Club boasts of stereophonic sound. At Whisky à Gogo in Cannes...