Steven Broomfield Posted 13 October , 2013 Share Posted 13 October , 2013 An interesting comment piece in today's Tottygraph. Like Mr Massie, I re-read Le Grand Meaulnes every few years and I realise now it is due back off the shelf. If you've not read it, do so now. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/10374009/Alain-Fourniers-Twilight-Eden-that-gave-way-to-the-trenches.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred van Woerkom Posted 14 October , 2013 Share Posted 14 October , 2013 Steven, I've had Le Grand Méaulnes for a nujmber of years without reading it., but I listened to the BBC Radio play many years ago. Likewise I heard Le Rouge et le Noir by Stendhal and RAZETSKY MARCH by Joseph Roth. This book I had just finished reading and when I put on BBC Radio 4 I heard the play. Marvellous to hear jolly upper-class accents when you imagined melancholy Austrian voices. Keep up the good work, Radio 4 ! All the best, Fred Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
healdav Posted 14 October , 2013 Share Posted 14 October , 2013 Can't stand the book. I gave away my copy as quickly as I could. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarylW Posted 14 October , 2013 Share Posted 14 October , 2013 Thought the description of the book sounded familiar. I read an English translation of this years ago. Might give this newer translation a go sometime, now I'm older and wiser (allegedly) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMarsdin Posted 14 October , 2013 Share Posted 14 October , 2013 Interestingly he was killed at Vaux (Meuse) in September 1914, Edited 17.22 14/10/2013 Vaux-les-Palameix (SE of Verdun, not the commune that included Fort Vaux) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred van Woerkom Posted 14 October , 2013 Share Posted 14 October , 2013 Wasn't he found together with some other bodies there? Or at least he was supposed to be one of them. Fred Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMarsdin Posted 14 October , 2013 Share Posted 14 October , 2013 I'm not sure how the body was specifically identified but I think it was in the 1990s and he was then reinterred in a military cemetery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Broomfield Posted 14 October , 2013 Author Share Posted 14 October , 2013 Ink-stained fingers, probably. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David_Blanchard Posted 14 October , 2013 Share Posted 14 October , 2013 Great book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Hone Posted 15 October , 2013 Share Posted 15 October , 2013 Just to be confusing I have seen it translated into English under four different titles: Le Grand Meaulnes, The Lost Domain, The Wanderer and The Lost Estate! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Broomfield Posted 15 October , 2013 Author Share Posted 15 October , 2013 My copy (which I can't find) was a Penguin edition from about 1978, and called Le Grand Meaulnes. I shall have to re-purchase (using the Forum Amazon link, of course) the new edition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoppage Drill Posted 15 October , 2013 Share Posted 15 October , 2013 My copy (which I can't find) was a Penguin edition from about 1978, and called Le Grand Meaulnes. I shall have to re-purchase (using the Forum Amazon link, of course) the new edition. Those books that you know you have on the shelf, and yet when you seek for them - zut alors ! - they are not there. Where do they go ? Even worse is the knowledge of a passage in a book which will answer a Forumista's question - but which book? And which page ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarylW Posted 15 October , 2013 Share Posted 15 October , 2013 The translation I read was The Lost Domain. In my kindle copy of 'The Discovery of France: Graham Robb', Fournier comes up about eight times using the search. There are details of his death, burial and also a mention of a planned route that will be named after him 'Route du Grand Meaulnes'. Also the classroom used as a model for the book is now apparently a museum. According to the author, Fournier's platoon were all from Gers in south-western France and he was killed leading a reconnaissance patrol into the woods south of Verdun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Broomfield Posted 15 October , 2013 Author Share Posted 15 October , 2013 Those books that you know you have on the shelf, and yet when you seek for them - zut alors ! - they are not there. Equally irritating is the ones you find TWO copies of - Vile Bodies (Evelyn Waugh) being the latest example to rear their ugly heads while I was searching for Fournier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoppage Drill Posted 15 October , 2013 Share Posted 15 October , 2013 Equally irritating is the ones you find TWO copies of - Vile Bodies (Evelyn Waugh) being the latest example to rear their ugly heads while I was searching for Fournier. Maugh Waugh than you bargained faugh, I should say. Radio Faugh is running "Sword of Honour" as a serial at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Clay Posted 15 October , 2013 Share Posted 15 October , 2013 Maugh Waugh than you bargained faugh, I should say. Radio Faugh is running "Sword of Honour" as a serial at the moment. Saughd, shurely? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Broomfield Posted 15 October , 2013 Author Share Posted 15 October , 2013 Is that Radio Faugh a Ballagh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoppage Drill Posted 15 October , 2013 Share Posted 15 October , 2013 Is that Radio Faugh a Ballagh? You are simply Clearing the Way for further idiocy on my part. Don't humour me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoppage Drill Posted 15 October , 2013 Share Posted 15 October , 2013 é Saughd, shurely? Touché. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarylW Posted 15 October , 2013 Share Posted 15 October , 2013 A free copy of the book on Gutenburg (The French one for those who can) http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5781 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarylW Posted 15 October , 2013 Share Posted 15 October , 2013 Do carry on gents. For a short while, it was very reminiscent of an old gin palace I once frequented. Think it might have been called Skindles? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Broomfield Posted 16 October , 2013 Author Share Posted 16 October , 2013 Cheers Caryl: I was trying my O Level French out last evening on that link you supplied. I'm afraid my French is a bit TOO O Level ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred van Woerkom Posted 16 October , 2013 Share Posted 16 October , 2013 Stoppage Drill, When is the SWORD OF HONOUR broadcast on Radio Four? I remember listening in the nineties and enjoying it very much, much more than reading it again a couple of years ago. Does it still begin with the song "I'm gonna hang my washing on the Siegfried Line/ Have you any dirty washing, mother dear? Cheers, Fred Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred van Woerkom Posted 17 October , 2013 Share Posted 17 October , 2013 I've done a quick google and found that Channel 4 is broadcasting the trilogy. Fred Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Hone Posted 26 October , 2013 Share Posted 26 October , 2013 Presumably the Daniel Craig TV version from a few years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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