Le Grand Meaulnes
1913 novel by Alain-Fournier / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Le Grand Meaulnes (French: [lə ɡʁɑ̃ moln]) is the only novel by French author Alain-Fournier, who was killed in the first month of World War I. The novel, published in 1913, a year before the author's death, is somewhat autobiographical, especially the name of the heroine Yvonne, for whom he had a doomed infatuation in Paris. Fifteen-year-old François Seurel narrates the story of his friendship with seventeen-year-old Augustin Meaulnes as the latter searches for his lost love. Impulsive, reckless and heroic, Meaulnes embodies the romantic ideal, the search for the unobtainable, and the mysterious world between childhood and adulthood.[1]
Author | Alain-Fournier |
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Translator | Françoise Delisle |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Genre | Bildungsroman |
Publisher | Émile-Paul Frères |
Publication date | 1913 |
Published in English | 1928 |