![]() ![]() "Often afterwards, when he had gone to sleep after trying desperately to recapture that beautiful image, he saw in his dreams a procession of young women who resembled her. Seurel rightly guesses that Meaulnes met a young woman there, and that he is in love. He wakes in the midwinter nights to find Meaulnes pacing the room "like someone rummaging about in his memory, sorting out scraps." Meaulnes remains disconsolate, but finally reveals the nature of his travels, and the strange days of revelry at his unintended destination-the "lost domain" to which he is desperate to return and doesn't know how to find. When the youth sets off on an impetuous errand of a few hours and doesn't return for several days, events take a darker turn.Īfter Meaulnes's reappearance, Seurel notices his companion's unrest, and tries to uncover its source. A tall, somber youth of 17, he instantly becomes the class ringleader, and is soon known as le grand Meaulnes. The tale is recounted by François Seurel, whose father heads the village school where Augustin Meaulnes comes to board. When Alain-Fournier was killed in battle on the Meuse in 1914, he left behind Le Grand Meaulnes, a novel of wistful enchantment. ![]()
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