The Lost Estate

Posted on April 12, 2012 by mbcadmin

Date: 12 April 2012

Venue: Oak Bistro, Cambridge

Book Score: 10

http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/id/My_Penguin_The_Lost_Estate_Le_Grand_Meaulnes_v_9/9780141033464

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4 Responses to The Lost Estate

  1. Mr Red says:
    April 14, 2012 at 2:18 pm

    Fournier’s dreamworld left me cold. Where was everything? Who was everybody? Did it really matter? Did I care? Julian Barnes still thinks it’s great, even in his sixties. But I think the book is all surface. Better to read it in French, perhaps, than in translation, to try and recapture the alleged magic of the original. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/apr/13/grand-meaulnes-wanderer-julian-barnes?newsfeed=true

  2. Mr Orange says:
    May 26, 2012 at 7:31 pm

    Forget the story, this stylish novella is all atmosphere and unlike pretty much anything written before. Le Grand Meaulnes influenced writers from F. Scott Fitzgerald to John Fowles and remains an odd, yet interesting, curio. Sadly, Fournier was killed in WWI.

  3. Mr Black says:
    June 23, 2012 at 12:00 pm

    Enjoyable read with wonderful descriptions of what it must have been like to live in rural France during that era.

  4. Mr Red says:
    September 15, 2013 at 4:29 pm

    Hallucinatory and rather confusing; I thought the huge reputation this novel has is mostly undeserved. The characters never come to life, but remain trapped in their dreamworld.

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