![]() ![]() ![]() Boy spends years trying to recapture moment and girl but 4. In a magical moment, boy briefly encounters exquisite girl 3. The plot sounds somewhat ludicrous when recounted (although Dante and his Beatrice, after all, tread similar turf): 1. Le Grand Meaulnes resists easy description. Though the narrative’s language, tone, and point-of-view reach toward an unaffected innocence of style, Alain-Fournier was no naïf he was a nascent man-of-letters, a poet and critic, who knew Jacques Riviere, Andre Gide, Paul Claudel, and many other early French modernists. ![]() Although it is considered an important text of modern French literature, and the British novelist John Fowles once wrote a deliriously adoring paean to it, it rarely appears on lists of classic must-reads in US literary circles.Īlain-Fournier was a (sort of) pseudonym for Henri Alban-Fournier who, like the narrator of Le Grand Meaulnes, was the son of a rural French schoolteacher. The novel, whose title is almost never literally translated, is variously known as The Wanderer, The Lost Manor, The Lost Estate in English but mostly it isn’t known at all, at least in the United States. Although the influential French author Alain-Fournier probably never used the word modernism (or its French equivalent), his novel, Le Grand Meaulnes, published in 1913, is a small shining stone on the rocky path to modern literature. ![]()
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