Alain-Fournier

/ alɛ̃furnje /

noun

1. Alain-Fournier18861914MFrenchWRITING: novelist real name Henri-Alban Fournier. 1886–1914, French novelist; author of Le Grand Meaulnes (1913; translated as The Lost Domain, 1959)

Example Sentences

One favorite is Alain-Fournier’s “Le Grand Meaulnes,” translated as “The Lost Domain” — a beautiful and mysterious story about the end of childhood.

From New York Times

Alas, we’ll never know what else Alain-Fournier might have written as he was killed in World War I. I was thrilled when Ursula LeGuin, reviewing my novel “The Burning Girl,” referred to “The Lost Domain,” to which my book was in part a homage.

From New York Times

He conceived of it as a 50,000 word novella, “a little sweet summer story,” in the tradition of Alain-Fournier’s Le Grand Meaulnes, but he enjoyed writing it so much that it “sort of sprawled a bit”.

From The Guardian

“So. Translate the first chapter of Alain-Fournier from French to English, or do not return next Saturday. The author needs no parochial schoolchildren to disfigure his truth, but I need you to proof you do not waste my time. Go.”

From Literature

“Alain-Fournier is your first true master. He is nostalgic and tragic and enchantible and he aches and you will ache too and best of everything, he is true.”

From Literature