Fuelled humans: The petromodern entanglement of driving and living in Françoise Sagan

Reading Françoise Sagan's texts, the question that arises is whether driving is characterised by the protagonists or whether driving characterises protagonists. This analysis reveals how indissociable both become, regarding questions of power, pleasure, and standstill. Entering Sagan's fiction means translating our notion of the human condition into a notion of automobility: Sagan's protagonists are fuelled humans – characters that recognise and express themselves by their relation to petromodern mobility.