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of course Bonjoure Tristesse is a Summer read masterpiece, but all of Sagan’s works deserve love. They’re beautifully written and breezy and transport you to France. They’re the Eric Rohmer moral tales of books. It’s Sagan summer!
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it’s about a young woman spending her summer after finishing school in a villa in the south of France with her eccentric father & his various lovers.
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🫂I have been on a Sollers kick the last few months. His novels are varied, difficult, and a riot. But best of all is the book he and his wife Julia Kristeva co-wrote: Marriage as a Fine Art. On the one hand, it’s one huge flex on all other theory couples, just a relatively incoherent rambling braggart’s song about how great they are. Kristeva outright deems Sarte and Beauvoir “liberarian terrorists.” “To carry out their work of liberatarian terrorism, they turned themselves into a shock commando unit. . . [reliant] on their shared history as two wounded people.” But it is also very sweet. You can find them going around and around on such topics as the nature of passion (PS: “As if passion necessarily [has] to be punished, as if love could only end in disaster. I object to that notion, quite violently. That’s not my idea of love.” JK: “Passion is enthusiasm and the proximity of death. It is joy and it is death. It is annihilation and jubilation.”) As a Sollers fan and a Kristeva agnostic, it has evened out my opinion of the pair. Somehow, the book, dense as it is, tickles the same part of my brain that is satisfied by a 2000s romcom.
May 17, 2022
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I'm ngl I've forgotten many parts of the story, I dozed off in others, and it was difficult to understand but I still really enjoyed the experience of reading Swann's Way. Now that we're in the middle of summer I'm remembering this book because that's the season where it takes place. I long for my summers to be as languid as I felt it was in the book, where I can just lounge around outside, take strolls, and be curious about strangers. Speaking of taking strolls, that part of the book where Marcel takes evening walks with his family felt startingly personal because I do the same every single dayyy. When I graduate I'm going to miss all these mundane routines with family and current life in general. Reading Swann's Way is comforting for me and I wish transported into that world. I'm definitely going to re-read it and I also have the other books to slowly get through. If anyone has any similar books to recommend please lmk!!
Aug 1, 2024
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🍎if you like stretching and breakfast youll love walking around while eating an apple. it’s a lost art
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stills from The Color Of Pomegranates, the most aesthetically pleasing movie ever. also featured in my profile. i love unlocking my phone and seeing beauty!
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i’ve been making homemade ice cream
for my friends (everyone in nyc is my friend). i love this arugula flavor i made it’s so summery and peppery and bright! arugula is the best leafy green in my opinion. i also paired it with this beautiful arugula amaro that i highly recommend too :)
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