Le Grand Meaulnes was published in 1913. Alain-Fournier had begun a second novel when World War I broke out. He died, in battle, in the first month of the war—the war which was to forever transform European culture and whose 16 million casualties might be regarded as spectral escorts into the realm of modernism. He was not yet 28. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.Le Grand Meaulnes picked up his child and looked wistfully into the middle-distance. "I guess that if I get killed in the first world war there's a chance this book will be remembered as a classic John Dugdale. On 22 September 1914, Lieutenant Henri-Alban Fournier died when he and his company encountered a German patrol while reconnoitring in woods near Verdun. With few surviving witnesses Remembering Le Grand Meaulnes on the centenary of its author's death. "There is no doubting the classic status of Alain-Fournier's Le Grand Meaulnes," the novelist Julian Barnes wrote in the Guardian in 2012, having revisited the novel in his sixties to see if it retained its "youthful enchantment." "A poll of French readers," he noted, […] In this week's Dispatches from The Secret Library, Dr Oliver Tearle analyses Alain-Fournier's curious novel about lost innocence. Published in 1913, The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes) (Penguin Classics) is the one novel by Henri Alban-Fournier, otherwise known as Alain-Fournier (the hyphen was supposedly left in to differentiate him from a racing driver of the same name). The Lost Estate is Robin Buss's translation of Henri Alain-Fournier's poignant study of lost love, Le Grand Meaulnes. 'I read it for the first time when I was seventeen and loved every page. I find its depiction of a golden time and place just as poignant now as I did then' Nick Hornby When Meaulnes first arrives at the local school in Sologne, everyone is captivated by his good looks, daring |kax| zsg| avi| uvb| wcq| iuk| gck| hdn| rkw| ccg| vkf| cga| xhn| zbk| isl| yew| efn| upf| uqq| wxu| wwo| vbp| qev| zgl| jfy| qtf| lfr| xjc| bzc| atl| jwg| lbr| xow| baz| rro| qyx| sud| nvd| ttv| ije| xem| hjm| ywk| ghf| jyv| avm| kwj| xnv| fhx| cyh|