Resumen de Viagem encantada pela mão do "Grand Meaulnes": o universo poético de Alain-Fournier ede Jean-Gabriel Albicocco
Caught between childhood and adulthood, between dreams and the palpable, the character of Alain-FournierMeaulnes leads the reader through two dimensions: the imaginary and reality. The writer said, up on publicationof his novel,”I do not as pire to a prize, nor to money, but I would like the Grand Meaulnes to be read.” The GrandMeaulnes is today one of the ten greatest French novels of the twentieth century, alongside Etranger by AlbertCamus and Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Killed on the battlefield, a year after the publication of his onlynovel, Alain-Fournier did not witness the success of his work, but left as taunch defender of his creation: his sister,Isabelle Rivière. Although many other filmmakers have tried to transpose the work of the writer into film, only Jean-Gabriel Albicocco has earned that privilege. He knew Isabelle Rivière personally, and the fascination he had for thenovel and its creator made him this woman ́s spiritual son. Accordingly, in 1967, Albicocco ́s cinematic rendition ofthe work brings the ultimate extent of tangibility of Fournier’s writing to the reader’s delight.
