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Starred Review. Touching and wonderfully detailed, this portrait of French life in the 1890s will make readers feel not only that they know the time and place but that they are actually there. François Seurel, a schoolmaster's son, is 15 and lives in a small village with his parents. Augustin Meaulnes is new at school, and comes to stay with the Seurel family as a boarder. Augustin is two years older and very charismatic, and the boys at the school start to call him le grand Meaulnes as a tribute. Jasmin Delouche, a physically small young man who nonetheless is cock of the walk at the school, feels supplanted by the new arrival—but for François, a whole new world of adventure has been opened. When the boys' ramblings lead them to the domain of the title and an odd party that is taking place there, events are set in motion that will change them. If this were only a chronicle of smalltown life and the ups and downs of youth, it would be a fine story, but the complications that force the boys to grow up quickly deepen the book and make it a classic. (Jan.)
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"Touching and wonderfully detailed, this portrait of French life in the 1890s will make readers feel not only that they know the time and place but that they are actually there...If this were only a chronicle of smalltown life and the ups and downs of youth, it would be a fine story, but the complications that force the boys to grow up quickly deepen the book and make it a classic." --Publishers Weekly
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- Hardcover: 232 pages
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (January 1, 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0199678685
- ISBN-13: 978-0199678686
- Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
There are four French-to-English translations of this haunting novel presently offered for sale in the Kindle Store. Two of them are particularly good and worthy of praise: this one by Frank Davison and another by R. B. Russell. The other two, by Jennifer Hashmi and Robin Buss, are not bad, but come across, comparatively speaking, as less smooth and natural. For instance, instead of using an ellipsis of three or four dots (periods), Hashmi regularly uses many dots (...........................) to indicate incomplete statements; this translational gimmick (unique to her) is quite distracting and draws undue attention to itself (especially when several such appear on the same page/screen). And to me, Buss's English syntax occasionally seems stilted. Again, neither is terrible, but given the luxury of comparative choice, Hashmi's and Buss's translations are not as much to my liking as Davison's and Russell's. (Please sample all four to decide for yourself.)
As to the merits of the novel itself, I have written about this wonderful and quite amazing book in my previous review of Russell's translation (and I would invite you to type "Russell Le Grand Meaulnes" in the Kindle Store searchbox to read that review). This is a very special book depicting one young man's mysterious transition from childhood to adulthood; it should be read by those who can still remember what it was like to be young and impressionable, a time of discovering life and the world, and being in love (for the first time) with one very special person in that world.
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