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Le grand Meaulnes
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I love this book, a classic of French adolescent literature, which brings joy, sadness, a sense of yearning, and the dream of an ideal life. I consider it the ultimate exploration of the twilight world between reality and fantasy.
An impressionable young man, on the verge of adulthood, stumbles across a costumed fete in progress in the grounds of a chateau. He meets and becomes infatuated with a beautiful woman. After returning home, he decides to embark on a quest to find the mysterious woman and the hidden world of ‘the lost domain’.
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