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Two translations into English then followed in That by Anne Green was published by E. The latter has become close to Dominique, relating to her almost as a mother, buying her presents and using the familiar form tu with her. Tiring of Bertrand, Dominique eventually decides on the experiment of accepting Luc's desire to make love to her and spends two weeks with him in a luxurious hotel in Cannes.

Though she had promised herself not to fall in love with Luc, after their sexual separation and return to Paris, Dominique becomes obsessed with the memory of their past happiness and appeals to Luc not to end the affair. But for Luc their relationship had simply been a pleasant adventure and he can only pity Dominique's inexperience.

Meanwhile Catherine, a fellow student, has told Bertrand of Dominique's affair and he informs Dominique that he is not prepared to share her affections. It was a simple story; there was nothing to make a fuss about.

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Sagan's novella reflects its author and the time when it was written. It is "studiedly young" [ 5 ] and makes its appeal to a young readership under the thrall of the contemporary climate of existentialism to which reference is made in the course of the story and its moral ambivalence. The book's amoral stance is that of the well-off middle class to which its author belonged, as conveyed through her deceptively simple narrative style.

In there was a US film adaptation of Sagan's novel but it was only allowed to be made after substantial changes to the story. Sagan disapproved of it publicly, and even its director Jean Negulesco has admitted that there is "not much of Sagan" in the film. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk.