What is this novel called?!
May 15, 2008 10:14 AM Subscribe
Please help me identify this French novel!
I'm filling in another stupid Facebook application involving the books you've read, are reading, etc. and suddenly remembered that I read a French (in French) novel last year around the fall. For the life of me I cannot remember the title OR the name of the author, though I'm sure if I were to see *either* I would recognize them.
Here is what I can remember: I believe the novel was written in the 1950s or 1960s, and while I don't think it was necessarily 'high literature' I believe the author was rather prolific (though I could be wrong). I'm also fairly sure the author was a woman. It was a sort of roman d'apprentissage, or coming-of-age tale, involving a young woman at a summer house on the beach where she was staying with her father and...step-mother? It could have been the other way around, as in mother and step-father, but I don't believe so. One of her parents was dead, I'm almost positive.
She meets a young man who lives in a house nearby, they fall in love and begin to meet secretly where they have a sexual relationship (though I believe she is only 15 or 16 and he is perhaps 20). The father finds out and she is forbidden to see him.
After that, details get hazy. I recall her being frustrated and angry for most of the novel and I believe it ends with SOMEONE dying in a car accident. Her father, perhaps. I honestly don't remember.
I bought the novel second-hand at a bookstore in Berkeley...please help me remember what the hell it's called! I tried searching the keywoards I can remember on google.fr but for some reason TRANSLATIONS OF TRUMAN CAPOTE are the number one results.
Thanks, HiveMind!
I'm filling in another stupid Facebook application involving the books you've read, are reading, etc. and suddenly remembered that I read a French (in French) novel last year around the fall. For the life of me I cannot remember the title OR the name of the author, though I'm sure if I were to see *either* I would recognize them.
Here is what I can remember: I believe the novel was written in the 1950s or 1960s, and while I don't think it was necessarily 'high literature' I believe the author was rather prolific (though I could be wrong). I'm also fairly sure the author was a woman. It was a sort of roman d'apprentissage, or coming-of-age tale, involving a young woman at a summer house on the beach where she was staying with her father and...step-mother? It could have been the other way around, as in mother and step-father, but I don't believe so. One of her parents was dead, I'm almost positive.
She meets a young man who lives in a house nearby, they fall in love and begin to meet secretly where they have a sexual relationship (though I believe she is only 15 or 16 and he is perhaps 20). The father finds out and she is forbidden to see him.
After that, details get hazy. I recall her being frustrated and angry for most of the novel and I believe it ends with SOMEONE dying in a car accident. Her father, perhaps. I honestly don't remember.
I bought the novel second-hand at a bookstore in Berkeley...please help me remember what the hell it's called! I tried searching the keywoards I can remember on google.fr but for some reason TRANSLATIONS OF TRUMAN CAPOTE are the number one results.
Thanks, HiveMind!
Response by poster: You are a goddess among women. Thanks!
posted by nonmerci at 10:45 AM on May 15, 2008
posted by nonmerci at 10:45 AM on May 15, 2008
The film by Otto Preminger with Jean Seberg is not bad either.
posted by Wolof at 3:42 AM on May 16, 2008
posted by Wolof at 3:42 AM on May 16, 2008
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posted by runincircles at 10:25 AM on May 15, 2008