The great friend Meaulnes (The great friend or , or The Great Meaulnes ) is considered the classic Alain Fournier, French writer died young during the Great War. The novel was published in 1913 in installments in a literary magazine, and was immediately a huge success. Its protagonist is Augustin Meulnes , wealthy young man from the French province of great charisma, so much so that his classmates nicknamed the Great Meulnes and have a strong influence on many people, including the narrator of the story, Seurel François, the son of the master of the country. The two companions of adventure, and during one of these, in a case which had come to being lost, they will see Yvonne from Calais, which is Meulnes invaghirà immediately. Unfortunately, despite the stubborn research, the "secret place" will no longer be found ... at least until ... Reality and dreams are intertwined in this enigmatic novel by Fournier (1886-1914).
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Alain-Fournier, pseudonym of Henri Alban Fournier ( La Chapelle-d'Angillon , October 3 1886 - Les Éparges , September 22 1914) was a writer French, died at the age twenty-seven years after he wrote only one novel , The Great Meaulnes (The great friend or even ). The son of teachers, he spent his childhood in Sologne and Berry Low . Until 1898 he studied at the school Epineuil-le-Fleuriel, where his father taught, then joined the School as a boarder Voltaire in Paris. In 1901, intending to enter the Ecole Navale, Brest went to high school, but soon gave up the idea. After obtaining his baccalauréat from high school in Bourges in 1903, he enrolled in high school Lakanal to Sceaux near Paris to prepare for the competition for admission to 'École Normale Supérieure , but could not overcome. In this period formed a deep friendship with Jacques Rivière , who married Isabelle Fournier, younger sister of his friend, in 1909 . In June 1905, during a brief stroll along the quays of the Seine , Alain-Fournier Quiévrecourt met Yvonne, who would become the first great love of his life, and from which he drew inspiration for the character of Yvonne de Calais in his novel. He would have found only eight years later, married and mother of two children. After failing once again in 1907, the entrance exam for the Ecole Normale Supérieure, from 1908 to 1909 military service. He returned to Paris in 1910 , he obtained a post as an editor at Paris-Journal . There he met André Gide and Paul Claudel . After leaving the drafting of the Paris-Journal in 1912, became secretary of the political Casimir Perrier . During this period, Alain-Fournier worked on his novel , Le Grand Meaulnes , inspired by autobiographical memories. The novel was serialized in the Nouvelle Revue Française in 1913, and then in volume from the publisher Paul-Emile. Le Grand Meaulnes was selected to compete for the prestigious Prix Goncourt . In 1914 , Alain-Fournier was about to write a play, La maison dans la forêt , and a second novel, Colombe Blanchet , which remained unfinished. In 'August 1914, he joined the army as a lieutenant of the reserve, and went to the front with 288 º Infantry Regiment of . He was reported missing in battle Les Éparges near Verdun (Meuse ), the September 22 1914, in the first battles of World War . The body remained unidentified until 1991, when it was found in a mass grave in Germany to a few hundred meters from Tranchée de Calonne, Verdun and the road that joins Hattonchâtel . Alain-Fournier rests today in the military cemetery Saint-Remy-la-Calonne .
Title: On great friend
Original title: Le Grand Meaulnes
Author: Henri Alain-Fournier
Publisher: Mondadori
Collection: Oscar classic modern
Publication: 1992 (the first was in 1913)
ISBN: 8880435842
Pages: 226
Price: € 9.00 
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