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“The father of the French New Wave . . . Rohmer’s surfaces aren’t placid but taut; they’re smooth because of their almost unbearably high tension.” —Richard Brody, The New Yorker Witty banter, lust, ennui, and an undercurrent of violence percolate beneath a seemingly paradisiacal summer on the eve of World War II, in this landmark translation of the first and only novel by Éric Rohmer, the French New Wave’s most prolific and beloved filmmaker.

Fifteen years before completing his first featu...