La Chamade

弗朗索瓦丝·萨冈Zhejiang People's Publishing House2025

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Word count
83 words
Chapters
1
Series
The Sagan Quintet: Desire and Sorrow
ISBN
9787213116353

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Featured Fiction Romance Fiction High SocietyCommunal LifeReal EstateEveryday LifeWomen's PsychologyPsychological PortrayalSexual PsychologyFull-Length NovelFrench NovelFrench Literature

Summary

Lucile is a woman wholly true to herself: she does not want to work, nor to be possessed by anyone; happiness is the only morality she acknowledges, and not deceiving herself is her only creed. For two years she has lived with Charles, a shy, wealthy real-estate developer over fifty, enjoying the comfort and ease he provides. At an upper-class dinner party she meets Antoine, a publishing editor, and between them arises a rapport and fervent passion almost adolescent in its intensity. After hesitation and struggle, Lucile leaves Charles and moves with Antoine—who has likewise abandoned his partner Diane—into a small, humble attic. Yet as the romantic glow fades in daily life, the passion moves toward its inevitable fatigue and extinction. The novel is structured in three parts—"Spring," "Summer," and "Autumn"—corresponding to the whole course of this Paris love affair from germination to burning to ending. The title La Chamade originally denotes in French a rumbling drumbeat sounded at the moment of surrender; Sagan uses it as a metaphor: love drives one to frenzy, makes one live brilliantly, and then surrender. With delicate psychological description and a light, sharp tone, the book portrays people wavering between passion and reason, dependence and freedom, and also the attitude of the young toward love and pleasure in an era.

Editor's review

萨冈十八岁以《你好，忧愁》成名，此后一生都在写同一种题材：爱情的萌发、燃烧与冷却。《狂乱》被许多读者视为她最成熟、最动人的作品之一，法国作家马尔罗甚至说过，萨冈的小说与琵雅芙的歌、香奈儿五号同属法国的出口名片。这本书的好，不在于情节多么跌宕，而在于萨冈对人心那点小心思的把握——她从不站在道德高地上审判人物，只是慵懒而准确地把欲望、虚荣、软弱与清醒一并摊开给你看。全书的篇幅短，仅约八万字，一口气就能读完，节奏从「春」的丰茂细密，到「秋」的简省克制，本身就构成了对一段感情衰败过程的模拟。本版由南京大学法语系毕业的童兰馨重新翻译，语言干净、贴近原文语感；开本小巧便携，适合通勤与睡前随手翻阅。若你读过《你好，忧愁》并喜欢那种带着凉意的法式笔调，这一本不会让你失望。

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Reading tips

  1. 先读「春」和「夏」，感受萨冈如何用日常细节铺陈激情；「秋」节奏明显加快，建议留一个完整时段读完。
  2. 留意书名 La Chamade 的法语含义，把它作为理解全书走向的一把钥匙。
  3. 可以对照余中先译本（人民文学出版社）阅读一两段，体会两位译者的语言差异。
  4. 读完不妨写三百字，记录自己对吕茜尔最终选择的理解，比读评论更有收获。

About the publisher

Zhejiang People's Publishing House China · Founded in 1951

Zhejiang People's Publishing House is a comprehensive publisher known for its social science, history and foreign literature titles, covering philosophy, politics, law, economics, culture and history. Among the books in the library catalogue, its foreign literature list includes Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country and The Old Capital in well-known translations, as well as Wuthering Heights; its history list is represented by Dangnian Mingyue's Ming Dynasty series, and its politics list by Zhejiang New Discourse. Authors represented include Yasunari Kawabata, Ye Weiqu, Tang Yuemei, Dangnian Mingyue, Emily Brontë and René Wellek, with Wellek's Theory of Literature (newly revised edition) among its titles in literary theory. Beyond these areas, the press also publishes works on literary appreciation and social culture, giving it a profile that combines classic translations, popular history and academic works. As publicly available information is limited, other details are not covered here.

Contents

  1. Sagan Quintet: Love and Sorrow

FAQ

《狂乱》讲的是什么样的故事？ 吕茜尔与富商夏尔同居多年，却在晚宴上结识出版社编辑安托万并与之相爱，两人各自离开了原来的伴侣。小说以春、夏、秋三部分，写这段巴黎恋情从萌发、炽热到终结的全过程。
这本书有多少字，读起来累吗？ 本版约八万三千字，264 页，属于篇幅很短的长篇。萨冈的句子轻快流畅，多数读者两三个晚上即可读完。
书名「狂乱」是什么意思？ 原文 La Chamade 在法语中指宣布失败时敲响的一阵隆隆鼓声。萨冈用它隐喻爱情令人热血狂乱，而狂乱之后终将迎来沉寂与投降。
这个版本和人民文学出版社的版本有什么区别？ 人民文学出版社版由余中先翻译（2019 年），浙江人民出版社本版由童兰馨翻译（2025 年），属「萨冈五部曲：爱欲与哀愁」丛书，为便携小开本。译文措辞有所不同，可按喜好选择。
没读过萨冈的其他作品，能直接读这本吗？ 可以。《狂乱》是独立成篇的长篇小说，与前作无情节关联，直接阅读不影响理解。

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About the author

弗朗索瓦丝·萨冈 Author

Françoise Sagan is a French writer known for her spare, cool prose about love and loneliness. Seven of her works are available here, including Bonjour Tristesse, A Certain Smile, Do You Like Brahms?..., A Month Later, a Year Later, La Chamade, The Lonely Pool, and The Heart of the Four Seas. Her subjects often center on love, emotional distance, and inner turmoil, and her books are usually classified as foreign literature. Because public information about her birth and death dates and nationality is limited, no detailed biography is given here. These works nonetheless show her gift for capturing subtle, contradictory feelings through understated storytelling, revealing emotional undercurrents beneath seemingly ordinary daily life and giving her a distinctive style that has earned her a following among Chinese readers.