Beyond the Letters

Very often during the days of early spring or late autumn we have such days when the sky is grey and cloudy, the ground is covered with dirty rests of snow mixed with rainwater and then you get the mood when you don't want to go anywhere or do anything and getting out of your warm bed into chilly and colourless street seems a torture. When such days come I know it's high time I picked one of Sagan's books. Strangely enough, though slow-flowing and melancholic, they always make me feel better on low days. Like many other people I started my acquaintance with Sagan with "Bonjour Tristesse".This novel is very famous so it's not surprising that I've heard about it many times but somehow I escaped from reading it. It seemed to me uninteresting, even boring and I had no desire even to open it. But my third year in university was the time for literary experiments and I included it into my to-read list. I will simply say I never regretted that decision. ...