The Lost Domain: Le Grand Meaulnes Centenary Edition
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (820 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0199678685 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 232 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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In her new introduction, well known biographer and critic Hermione Lee discusses the special hold the novel has on readers and the literary qualities that have made it a modern classic.. Determined to find the house again, and the girl with whom he has fallen in love, Meaulnes is torn between his love and competing claims of loyalty and friendship.This edition, published to celebrate the centenary of the work's publication, reprints Frank Davison's acclaimed translation that captures the elusive poetic subtlety of the original. Lost and alone, he stumbles upon an isolated house, mysterious revels, and a beautiful girl. The
Librarian said Good translation of a haunting novel. There are five French-to-English translations of this haunting novel presently offered for sale in the Kindle Store. Two are particularly good and worthy of praise: this one by Frank Davison and another by R. B. Russell. Another two, by Jennifer Hashmi and by Robin Buss, are not bad, but come across, comparatively speaking, as less smooth and natural. For instance, instead of using an ellipsis of three or four dots (periods), Hashmi regularly uses many dots () to indicate incomplete statements; this translational gimmick (unique to her) is quite distracting and draws undue attention to itsel. We can never go home again. still searching At the start of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca the narrator reminds us that `we can never go back again' as, in her dream, she wanders the winding, overgrown path to Manderley. Likewise, George Webber, Thomas Wolfe's `hero' reluctantly concludes, that `you can't go home again' at the end of his novel of the same name. And this, in essence, is the theme that haunts this elegiac tale of childhood lost and with it the innocence that often, in adulthood, we wish was ours still to claim.The story of Augustin Meaulnes or, Le Grand Meaulnes, as he is entitled by its narrator, Francois Seurel, 15 years. Losing Paradise Lady Fancifull I first read Alain Fournier’s evocative, dream-like book in my early twenties. It was one of those intense reading experiences which rather stay with the reader – or at least, the sense of oneself, one’s responses to the read, stay forever. So it was with a feeling of trepidation and excitement that I embarked on a re-read. Would my memory of the strange beauty of Fournier’s writing, of the misty, yearning sense of longing for something mythic and deep, which the book evokes, stand up to mature reading? With its youthful protagonists, would this turn out to be a book
She was Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford before becoming President of Wolfson College. Alain-Fournier was the pseudonym of Henri Alban-Fournier, whose only novel, Le Grand Meaulnes (The Lost Domain) was published the year before he was killed in action in 1914, at the age of 27. She has written acclaimed biographies of Willa Cather, Virginia Woolf, and Edith Wharton and her many
Touching and wonderfully detailed, this portrait of French life in the 1890s will make readers feel not only that they know the time and place but that they are actually there. Augustin Meaulnes is new at school, and comes to stay with the Seurel family as a boarder. (Jan.) . From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. If this were only a chronicle of smalltown life and the ups and downs of youth, it would be a fine story, but the complications that force the boys to grow up quickly deepen the book and make it a classic. Jasmin Delouche, a physically small young man who nonetheless is cock of the walk at the school, feels supplanted by the new arrival—but for François, a whole new world of adventure has been opened. Augustin is two years older and very charismati