Alain-Fournier
1886–1914
Biography
Alain-Fournier was the pen name of Henri-Alban Fournier, a French writer born in 1886 in central France. He grew up in the countryside and later made his way into the literary circles of Paris, where he formed a close friendship with the critic Jacques Rivière, who would become his brother-in-law. He was killed in action in September 1914, in the first weeks of the First World War, at the age of twenty-seven.
Le Grand Meaulnes, published in 1913, is the book that keeps his name alive. Its narrator is a schoolmaster's son in the Sologne countryside, who watches a new arrival, Augustin Meaulnes, stumble upon a hidden estate where a party is under way, and then cannot find his way back to it. The novel mixes adolescent longing with memories of rural life, and much of its feeling comes from the author's own boyhood. It has been adapted for the screen twice.
The site holds Le Grand Meaulnes, the book through which to know him. It is a short, complete novel, and since he never finished a second, this one book carries his whole reputation.
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Books
Le Grand Meaulnes
by Alain-Fournier
Le Grand Meaulnes 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…
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