Alain-Fournier

The Lost Estate is Robin Buss's translation of Henri Alain-Fournier's poignant study of lost love, Le Grand Meaulnes. This Penguin Classics edition also contains an introduction by Adam Gopnik.When Meaulnes first arrives at the local school in Sologne, everyone is captivated by his good looks, daring and charisma. But when Meaulnes disappears for several days, and returns with tales of a strange party at a mysterious house - and his love for the beautiful girl hidden within it, Yvonne de Galais - his life has been changed forever. In his restless search for his Lost Estate and the happiness he found there, Meaulnes, observed by his loyal friend Francois, may risk losing everything he ever had. Poised between youthful admiration and adult resignation, Alain-Fournier's compelling narrator carries the reader through this evocative and unbearably poignant portrayal of desperate friendship and vanished adolescence. Robin Buss's translation of Le Grand Meaulnes sensitively and accurately renders Alain-Fournier's poetically charged, expressive and deceptively simple style. In his introduction, New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik discusses the life of Alain-Fournier, who was killed in the First World War after writing this, his only novel.Henri Alban-Fournier (1886-1914), better known by the pseudonym Alain-Fournier, was born in La Chapelle d'Angillon, the son of a country school-master. He was educated at Brest and Paris, where he met the original Yvonne, who left a lasting impression on his life and work. Le Grand Meaulnes was published in 1912. Alan-Fournier joined the army as a Lieutenant in August 1914, and was killed in action on the Meuse less than a month later. Les Miracles, a volume of poems and essays, appeared posthumously in 1924.If you liked Le Grand Meaulnes, you might enjoy Gustave Flaubert's Sentimental Education, also available in Penguin Classics.'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

The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes)

Le Grand Meaulnes (Penguin Classics)

The Lost Estate [Le Grand Meaulnes]

Jennifer Hashmi

Alain-Fournier, was born in 1886 in La Chapelle-d'Angillon in the Cher region of France. His book "Le Grand Meaulnes" is about adolescence and regret for that which is lost. Jennifer Hashmi has not tried to transform Le Grand Meaulnes into an English version of a French novel. The poetic style of the original has been left intact, pointing always to something unattainable. Alain-Fournier communicates in hints, recollections, and frequent ellipses when Francois leaves the reader to intuit the rest for himself. Ms. Hashmi has adhered to the French wording and gaps in order to retain the intangible quality of Alain-Fournier's narrative. The story is about searching for that which is lost, lost youth, lost people, and is told by Francois who narrates all that is precious in his memory of Augustin Meaulnes, who changed his life for ever, and the lives of all of his class at Sainte-Agathe.

Le Grand Meaulnes

Il arriva chez nous un dimanche de novembre 189... Énigmatique et bravache, ce nouveau pensionnaire de l'école de Sainte- Agathe, rapidement surnommé le Grand Meaulnes par les autres élèves, n'en finit pas de subjuguer. Son mystère augmente encore quand, au retour d'une fugue, il raconte son étrange aventure : la rencontre d'une très belle jeune fille dans un château inconnu lors d'une fête fabuleuse. Avec l'aide de François, le fils de l'instituteur, il part en quête de ce paradis perdu. Mais le passé peut-il renaître? Cette question que pose Meaulnes, c'est celle que se pose Alain- Fournier, à travers ce roman nourri de souvenirs personnels.

Het grote avontuur

Der große Meaulnes : Roman

Bernard Capo

Sur le front de la Meuse, trois mois après le début de ce qui deviendra la Grande Guerre, gît un jeune lieutenant anonyme. Il n'a que 27 ans. Les balles ont emporté celui dont le corps ne sera identifié qu'en 1991, Henri-Alban Fournier. Mieux connu sous le nom d'Alain-Fournier, ce jeune homme est l'auteur d'un seul roman publié, Le Grand Meaulnes, récit romantique inspiré de sa vie marquée par le département du Cher, à Epineuil-le-Fleuriel où il vécut enfant, et par son amour éperdu et sans retour pour une belle jeune fille qu'il nommait Yvonne de Galais. Favori finalement éconduit du prix Goncourt 1913, Le Grand Meaulnes bouleversera des millions de lecteurs pendant des décennies, il est classé à la neuvième place des cent meilleurs livres du XXe siècle. Bernard Capo est un passionné de l'écrivain Alain-Fournier, dont il partage l'amour et la fascination pour cette région de France. Qui mieux que lui pouvait adapter pour la première fois Le Grand Meaulnes en bande dessinée ?

Edition enrichie (Chronologie) Présent depuis près de cinquante ans au catalogue du Livre de Poche – avec le numéro 1000 –, Le Grand Meaulnes a fait rêver plus de cinq millions de lecteurs de tous âges. Parce qu’il exprime d’une façon unique les amitiés absolues de l’enfance, les rêves fous de l’adolescence, la passion amoureuse et le passage à l’âge d’homme, ce premier – et unique – roman est bien, comme Alain- Fournier le voulait, « un roman d’aventures et de découvertes ».

Le Grand Meaulnes - Edition Collège

Der große Meaulnes

Mūn-i buzurg

Le grand Meaulnes /Alain-Fournier. Préface et comm. par Daniel Leuwers

Cărarea pierdută

Valerie Browne Lester

When Augustin Meaulnes arrives in François' home, he changes everything. Life in the little town where they both go to school suddenly becomes far more adventurous and exciting. On one of his escapades, Meaulnes gets lost in the countryside finds himself at an extraordinary party where he meets the girl of his dreams. From this point on he is haunted by her memory and devotes his life, with François' willing help, to finding her again.

The Magnificent Meaulnes

The Wanderer

The Wanderer (Le Grand Meaulnes)

L'arrivee d'Augustin Meaulnes a l'ecole de Sainte-Agathe bouleverse la vie de Francois Seurel. C'est le debut d'une amitie et le commencement de l'aventure. Un jour, Augustin se perd dans la campagne et assiste a une fete bien etrange, dans un domaine inconnu. Il tombe amoureux de la jeune fille du lieu, Yvonne de Galais, qu'il n'aura de cesse de retrouver.

When Alain-Fournier was killed in battle on the Meuse in 1914, he left behind Le Grand Meaulnes, a novel of wistful enchantment. The tale is recounted by Francois Seurel, whose father heads the village school where Augustin Meaulnes comes to board. A tall, somber youth of 17, he instantly becomes the class ringleader, and is soon known as le grand Meaulnes. When the youth sets off on an impetuous errand of a few hours and doesn't return for several days, events take a darker turn. After Meaulnes's reappearance, Seurel notices his companion's unrest, and tries to uncover its source. He wakes in the midwinter nights to find Meaulnes pacing the room "like someone rummaging about in his memory, sorting out scraps." Meaulnes remains disconsolate, but finally reveals the nature of his travels, and the strange days of revelry at his unintended destination--the "lost domain" to which he is desperate to return and doesn't know how to find. Seurel rightly guesses that Meaulnes met a young woman there, and that he is in love. "Often afterwards, when he had gone to sleep after trying desperately to recapture that beautiful image, he saw in his dreams a procession of young women who resembled her ... but not one of them was this tall slender girl." The two friends set about retracing Meaulnes's path, and their journeys take them into manhood, when Meaulnes finds at last a way to bring his quest full circle. Alain-Fournier pairs his tightly twisting plot with a poignant nostalgia. His descriptive powers bring to the reader the sights and sounds--the icy winter winds and rattling carriage wheels--from an earlier time, all the while weaving a brilliant affirmation of loyalty and lasting friendship. --editorial review by Joannie Kervran

O bosque das ilusões perdidas, ou O Grande Meaulnes (Le Grand Meaulnes no original) foi publicado na França em 1913. Seu autor morreu precocemente, em setembro de 1914, como alferes em combate durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial. Alain-Fournier, que demorara oito anos para terminar seu único romance, muito provavelmente não imaginou que seu livro ganharia a chancela de clássico e seria um dos mais lidos e queridos pelos franceses, atravessando gerações e ganhando traduções e admiradores mundo afora. No final do século XIX, o pacato François Seurel, com seus quinze anos, narra a história que começa com a chegada de Augustin Meaulnes, um menino exuberante e alto (daí o Grande do título original) que veio morar em sua casa, na pequena cidade de Sante Agathe, e estudar na escola dirigida por seu pai. Mesmo com temperamentos muito diferentes, por vezes opostos, os dois garotos desenvolvem uma amizade leal e fraterna, em que se influenciam mutuamente. Onde um é prudência, o outro é ousadia. Certa manhã, o irrequieto Augustin Meaulnes se perde ao sair escondido de carruagem para buscar os avós de François na estação. Em suas tentativas frustradas de achar o caminho, ele chega a um lugar misterioso. Exausto, esgueira-se para um quarto e adormece. Quando desperta, está envolto em uma atmosfera de sonho, com pessoas fantasiadas, músicas, uma alegria que se espalha pela mansão que domina o pátio e pelos bosques, em uma celebração que descobre ser o casamento do jovem Frantz. E quando tudo acaba, vê na noite aquela terra sem mapa sumir no pó que as carruagens levantam na estrada. O reencontro com aquele mundo perdido passa a ser sua obsessão. É para o amigo François que conta a estranha aventura que o modificaria para sempre, e a quem pede ajuda. Uma história de amizade, aventuras e descobertas. Um romance de formação, que percorre essa jornada transformadora, por vezes maravilhosa, por vezes dura, que leva à maturidade.

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