by Anne Wiazemsky · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070768936
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«Je m'appelle Élisabeth» is the novel by Anne Wiazemsky, published by Gallimard in paperback (167 pages, in French).
Betty is twelve years old and her life changes when she crosses paths with Yvon, a sick man who has escaped from the psychiatric hospital. She decides to protect him and hide him in her cabin, driven by a mysterious impulse toward «another life». To help him, she defies her father, outwits the police, and breaks the rules.
The novel belongs to Gallimard's Blanche collection and was originally published in France in 2004.
Readers of French fiction interested in stories about childhood, loyalty, and defiance of norms.
Anne Wiazemsky was a German-born French actress and novelist of Russian ancestry. She made her cinema debut at the age of 18, playing Marie, the lead character in Robert Bresson's Au hasard Balthazar (1966). A year later she married the director Jean-Luc Godard and appeared in several of his films, including La Chinoise (1967), Week End (1967), and One Plus One (1968).
