Françoise Sagan. Woman in Makeup

Françoise Sagan was called the Mademoiselle Chanel of literature. Beginning with her very first novel, Bonjour Tristesse! (1954), which caused quite a stir, her literary career blossomed brilliantly, producing book after book with astonishing ease, each translated into various languages ​​and selling millions of copies around the world. Twenty-six years after Bonjour Tristesse!, the writer created La Femme à Makeup, her longest novel, "the most entertaining and unlike any of my works" (according to Sagan). It is a sparkling, nostalgic love story, written with refined grace and humor. On board the liner Narcisse, during a cruise organized in honor of the famous opera diva Doria Doriacci, to the sounds of operatic arias and the popping of champagne corks, couples form and break up. It would seem that all this doesn't bother the bored, wealthy passengers in the least. But gradually, one by one, the masks fall, and drama begins to unfold.