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The “Other Landscape” of Alain-Fournier

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Harold M. March*
Affiliation:
Swarthmore College

Extract

William James, in his Varieties of Religious Experience, makes the following statement:

Lyric poetry and music are alive and significant only in proportion as they fetch these vague vistas of a life continuous with our own, beckoning and inviting, yet ever eluding our pursuit. We are alive or dead to the eternal inner message of the arts according as we have kept or lost this mystical susceptibility.

Type
Research Article
Information
PMLA , Volume 56 , Issue 1 , March 1941 , pp. 266 - 279
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1941

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References

Note 1 in page 266 Chapter on Mysticism, Modern Library ed. p. 374.

Note 2 in page 266 Jacques Rivière et Alain-Fournier, Correspondance, ii, 359, 360.

Note 3 in page 266 Alain-Fournier, in series Les Amis d'Edouard (Paris, 1920), p. 28.

Note 4 in page 267 Introduction to Alain-Fournier, Miracles (Paris, 1924), pp. 47, 29.

Note 5 in page 267 Ibid., p. 55.

Note 6 in page 268 Le Grand Meaulnes, Émile-Paul Frères ed., pp. 69–70.

Note 7 in page 268 Ibid., p. 72.

Note 8 in page 268 Ibid., p. 102.

Note 9 in page 268 Ibid., p. 253.

Note 10 in page 268 Lettres à sa famille (1930); Letters au petit B. (1930); Jacques Rivière et Alain-Fournier, Correspondance (1926).

Note 11 in page 269 Lettres à sa famille, March 20, 1905.

Note 12 in page 269 Le Grand Meaulnes, p. 292.

Note 13 in page 269 Correspondance, Sept. 5, 1909 (iv, 165).

Note 14 in page 269 “À travers les étés (July 23, 1905), ”Et maintenant que c'est la pluie“ (January, 1906), ”Dans le chemin qui s'enfonce“ (August, 1906), all in Miracles.

Note 15 in page 269 Lettres à sa famille, Nov. 30, 1905 (pp. 74–75).

Note 16 in page 270 From “À travers les étés,” in Miracles, p. 99 ff.

Note 17 in page 270 Particularly one to René Bichet, Lettres au petit B., September 6, 1908.

Note 18 in page 270 Correspondance, June 4, 1908 (iii, 363).

Note 19 in page 271 Cf. Portrait, a story referring to the period 1901–02 at Brest, and the poem Conte du soleil et de la roûte, written before the meeting with Yvonne; both in Miracles.

Note 20 in page 271 Correspondance, March 21, 1906 (ii, 10).

Note 21 in page 271 Ibid., May 26, 1906 (ii, 112–114).

Note 22 in page 272 Ibid., ii, 196–197.

Note 23 in page 272 Le Grand Meaulnes, p. 252.

Note 24 in page 272 Cf. Rivière in introduction to Miracles, pp. 76–79.

Note 25 in page 272 Correspondance, October 4, 1905 (i, 141).

Note 26 in page 272 Ibid., April 21, 1906 (ii, 70).

Note 27 in page 272 Ibid., June 4, 1906 (ii, 127–128).

Note 28 in page 273 Ibid., June 23, 1906 (ii, 149).

Note 29 in page 273 Quoted by Evelyn Underbill, Mysticism (1930), p. 192.

Note 30 in page 273 With the Door Open, pp. 25, 26.

Note 31 in page 273 Correspondance, June 29, 1907 (iii, 168).

Note 32 in page 274 Ibid., December 15, 1906 (ii, 360).

Note 33 in page 275 Ibid., June 29, 1907 (iii, 167, 168).

Note 34 in page 275 Ibid., December 26, 1906 (ii, 385).

Note 35 in page 275 Ibid., July, 27, 1907 (iii, 223–224).

Note 36 in page 276 Ibid., January 26, 1907 (iii, 28).

Note 37 in page 276 Ibid., September 21, 1909 (iv, 174).

Note 38 in page 276 Ibid., June 18, 1909 (iv, 140–141).

Note 39 in page 276 Ibid., September 5, 1909 (iv, 165).

Note 40 in page 276 Ibid., September 5, 1909 (iv, 165–166), and “Madeleine” (Miracles).

Note 41 in page 276 The story of Jeanne B., or “Annette” as she was named in an earlier version of Le Grand Meaulnes, can be pieced together from Fournier's letters to Rivière of September 5, 1909, and April 2, September 13 and 28, and October 19, 1910, and the footnote to Rivière's letter of October 19, 1910.

Note 42 in page 277 Correspondance, September 21, 1909 (iv, 175).

Note 43 in page 277 Ibid., August 22, 1906 (ii, 203).

Note 44 in page 277 Ibid., September 4, 1913 (iv, 372).

Note 45 in page 277 Ibid., September 20, 1913 (iv, 375).

Note 46 in page 277 Ibid., July 27, 1909 (iv, 153).

Note 47 in page 277 Ibid., May 20, 1909 (iv, 128).

Note 48 in page 278 Ibid., September 5, 1909 (iv, 164–165).

Note 49 in page 278 Ibid., June 18, 1909 (iv, 140). Cf. also letter of June 2, 1909.

Note 50 in page 278 Ibid., June 2, 1909 (iv, 135).

Note 51 in page 278 Ibid., March 10, 1910 (iv, 181).

Note 52 in page 278 Lettres à sa famille, June 10, 1909 (p. 283).

Note 53 in page 279 Une Saison en enfer, “Mauvais Sang” (Mercure ed., 1929, p. 267).

Note 54 in page 279 Nouvelle Revue française, December, 1922; Introduction to Miracles, pp. 76–78.

Note 55 in page 279 Isabelle Rivière, Avant-propos aux Lettres d'Alain-Fournier à sa famille.

Note 56 in page 279 Cf. “C'est trop beau, trop! Gardons notre silence” (“Bruxelles” in Illuminations) and “Je ne sais plus parler” (“Matin” in Une Saison en enfer).