John Fowles (1926 – 2005)

Fowles (Bassoules:Sigma)

“…What he (Alain-Fournier) nailed down is the one really acute perception of the young, which is the awareness of loss as a function of passing time ….”

John Fowles, Afterword to Alain-Fournier’s “The Wanderer [Le Grand Meaulnes]”

 

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