ELISABETH: THE ADVANCE READER COPY: Rare Fine Copy - ONLY COPY ONLINE
Rohmer, Eric (Author); Aciman, Andre (Contributor) & Kerner, Aaron (Translator)
Langue : anglais
Edité par McNally Editions, New York City, NY, 2026
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1st Printing. 218 pages. English Translation of the author's breakthrough debut novel. One of Eric Rohmer's finest achievements. Advance Reader Copy. Precedes and should not be confused with the regular trade edition. Published in a tiny, one-time-only print run as a softcover original only for the exclusive use of the publisher. None of the copies was commercially sold. The Advance Reader Copy is now rare. Presents, in its earliest-publication format, Eric Rohmer's "Elisabeth" in the felicitous English translation by Aaron Kerner. With the letter S (in the French spelling), not Z (in the British). His first and only novel, preceding and anticipating his cinematic body of work by fifteen years. Foreword by Andre Aciman, one of the most brilliant novelists of our time. Postscript Interview with Rohmer, conducted in 2007, as part of the reissue of "Elisabeth" in France. "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 Eric Rohmer, the French New Wave's most beloved filmmaker" (Publisher's blurb). Born Maurice Scherer, he permanently changed his name to Eric Rohmer, which is a combination that comes from Erich Von Stroheim, one of the greatest film directors of the 20th century (he also memorably appeared in the Camp classic, "Sunset Boulevard", with Gloria Swanson and William Holden), and Sax Rohmer, the British thriller novelist/creator of the legendary "Fu Manchu" Series. "As a novelist, I am considered Modern. As a filmmaker, I am considered Classical" (Eric Rohmer). His ardent global followers consider him, simply, Master. An absolute "must-have" title for Eric Rohmer collectors. This title is a late-modern classic. As far as we know, this is the only Advance Reader Copy available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Precedes and should not be confused with the regular trade edition. A rare copy thus. One of the greatest writer/filmmakers of the 20th century. A fine copy. ISBN 1968671005.…
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- Titre
- ELISABETH: THE ADVANCE READER COPY: Rare Fine Copy - ONLY COPY ONLINE
- Auteur
- Rohmer, Eric (Author); Aciman, Andre (Contributor) & Kerner, Aaron (Translator)
- Éditeur
- McNally Editions, New York City, NY
- Année de publication
- 2026
- État de l'article
- Très bon
- Reliure
- Couverture souple
- Langue
- anglais
- ISBN à 10 chiffres
- 1968671005
- ISBN à 13 chiffres
- 9781968671006
- Édition
- Edition originale, Édition spéciale
- Impression
- 1er tirage
Witty banter, lust, ennui, and an undercurrent of violence underlie a seemingly paradisiacal summer on the eve of World War II, in this 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 Cahiers du cinéma that would usher the journal, and French cinema, into a new era―the man who would become known worldwide as Éric Rohmer published a single novel. Released by Éditions Gallimard alongside the early works of Claude Simon and Marguérite Duras, Élisabeth was part of the first flowering of what would come to be known as the nouveau roman―and was also the “matrix,” as Rohmer himself later put it, of the images, ideas, and formal concerns of his first sequence of films, Six Moral Tales.
Set in the sunstruck countryside east of Paris during the summer of 1939, a year ahead of the German invasion, where the upper-middle-class Roby family and its eponymous matriarch are spending a listless summer, Élisabeth is a war-novel awaiting a war. While the teenage Roby children and their friends swim, flirt, and lie to one another among the baking fields and icy meanders of the Marne, the novel becomes the scene of an anticipatory haunting. The simmering paranoia, calculated blankness, and potential violence of the coming Occupation are already present―as it were, in mufti. With a cool, kaleidoscopic eye, Rohmer lays out his protagonists and their precarious peace―their restlessness, their desperate boredom, their petty romantic agonies―with the unsettling chilliness and the sinister exactitude of details on a tactical map.
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À propos de l’auteur
Eric Rohmer (1920-2010) was born Maurice Schérer in the province of Lorraine. After moving to Paris and befriending cinephiles and future directors Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette, Claude Chabrol, and François Truffaut, among others, he began writing, editing, and publishing film criticism under a pseudonym supposedly cobbled together from the names of Erich von Stroheim and Sax Rohmer, respectively. Gradually following the lead of his fellow Cahiers du Cinéma contributors from theory to practice, he went on to direct more than twenty acclaimed feature films, including My Night at Maud's, Claire's Knee, and The Green Ray.
André Aciman is the New York Times bestselling author of Call Me By Your Name, Out of Egypt, Eight White Nights, False Papers, Alibis, Harvard Square, Enigma Variations, and Find Me. He's the editor of The Proust Project
and teaches comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City
University of New York. He lives with his wife in Manhattan.
Aaron Kerner completed an MFA at Emerson College and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he works as an English teacher at the Commonwealth School. His other translations include Augusto Monterroso's The Rest is Silence.
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