Is it something in the air or era ?
Alain-Fournier's Le Grand Meaulnes is suddenly all the rage.
Or at least getting more attention than usual (i.e. any).
In The Economist's year-end double-issue they devote quite a bit of space to it in The girl at the Grand Palais, while at The Rumpus Stephen Policoff writes on it in The Two Tragedies Of Life: Le Grand Meaulnes, Modernism (and Me).
The Economist wonders: "Why are many English-speaking readers unfamiliar with a book adored by some of their most respected writers ?" and finds that:
In The Economist's year-end double-issue they devote quite a bit of space to it in The girl at the Grand Palais, while at The Rumpus Stephen Policoff writes on it in The Two Tragedies Of Life: Le Grand Meaulnes, Modernism (and Me).
The Economist wonders: "Why are many English-speaking readers unfamiliar with a book adored by some of their most respected writers ?" and finds that:
Much loved yet little read, for almost a century this strange, earnest and inconsolable novel has haunted the fringes of fiction.Certainly a book that one should be familiar with.