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Wednesday, December 18, 2013

The Best Books of 1913 - Loons with trumpets blowed a blare, blare, blare / On, on upward thro' the golden air!

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This was a strange year for anniversaries.  It is usually the births and deaths of writers that are commemorated, but this year I noticed a ...
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Wednesday, April 20, 2011

An unbearable little cry, in which distress and satisfaction were equally mixed - the slimy, tattered little doll and The Goethean Meaulnes

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Goethe has distracted me from Alain-Fournier.  I had hoped to pursue the Goethean thread, but I am not sure many people would understand wha...
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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Then it was a dream like the one he used to have - Alain-Fournier, German Romantic

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Le Grand Meaulnes , Alain-Fournier’s gentle little 1913 novel, is a German novella snuck into French.  It’s ancestors are not, decidedly not...
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Monday, April 18, 2011

haggard and distraught, the gypsy in his carnival dress - the weird and wonderful Alain-Fournier

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Le Grand Meaulnes (1913) is a tricky little thing.  A charismatic new boy comes to school, and our lives would never be the same, and we al...
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