The pages were out of order, so much so that he first wondered if they were not two different stories. Denis Westhoff, François Sagan's son, found an unpublished manuscript in his mother's papers. Manuscript coming out in bookstore Thursday, at Plon's. The four corners of the heart tells the story of Fanny, who falls in love with her own daughter's husband.
Intrigue in love with the bourgeoisie
To publish this novel, Denis Westhoff first had to work a little. Put things in order, remove the duplicates to take shape the family Cresson. We are with industrialists, in the middle of the big bourgeoisie, necessarily with Sagan. Marie-Laure is married to Ludovic, the son Cresson, former playboy and beautiful party that all the girls tore up until he lost his beautiful after a terrible car accident. But while his wife despises him a little, her mother, Fanny, falls in love with him.
80,000 copies printed
The "great Sagan", according to Sophie Charvanel, the director of Plon. "I was absolutely upset, we find both the delicacy of the writing, the air not to touch the charm of the bourgeoisie, and at the same time a completely transgressive text."
This forbidden love is certainly not the best novel by François Sagan, who has not been able to rework, polish, plan to achieve a perfect text. But there are situations, formulas and his sense of observation of the irresistible world. On the side of Plon, we are confident: the novel was printed at 80,000 copies.