Elisabeth

Witty banter, lust, ennui, and an undercurrent of violence underlie 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 feature film—and ten before beginning a transformative editorial stint at the journal Cahiers du cinéma that would usher French cinema into a new era—the man who would become famous as Éric Rohm...