Books and Bookmen: Françoise Sagan (1965)

Books and Bookmen was a literary magazine founded in 1955 by publisher Philip Dossé. The magazine had six stablemates, Art and Artists, Dance and Dancers, Films and Filming, Music and Musicians, Plays and Players, and Records and Recording.

You might've already seen a few copies of Films and Filming on our site / instagram. 

This particular issue is from March 1965 and features an incredible cover article on Françoise Sagan, whose first novel Bonjour Tristesse, written in three weeks when she was 18 years old, scandalised French society with a tale of bourgeois affairs in the French Riviera.

The magazine includes excerpts from her diary 'Toxique' illustrated 'on a grand scale by the black starkness of Buffet', Buffet being the French painter and illustrator Bernard Buffet. The combination is reminiscent of Cocteau's Opium diary and accompanying illustrations.