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Emilie Bickerton, Doing and Saying — Sidecar

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Éric Rohmer’s novel.

Éric Rohmer published one novel, under the name Gilbert Cordier in 1946. He wrote Élisabeth when he was in his mid-twenties, more than a decade before Rohmer, whose real name was Maurice Schérer, made the first of his 24 feature films. The book did not inspire much interest at the time, nor did the second edition Gallimard brought out in 2007 under the title La maison d’Élisabeth, three years before Rohmer’s death in 2010. While Rohmer said he had been pleasantly surprised re-reading it decades later, he never made any great claims for it. It is hard to disagree, but reading the new English…

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