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Robert Gibson (1) (1927–)

Autore di The quest of Alain-Fournier

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Nome canonico
Gibson, Robert
Nome legale
Gibson, Robert Donald
Data di nascita
1927-08-21
Sesso
male
Nazionalità
England
UK
Luogo di nascita
Hackney, London, England, UK
Attività lavorative
Professor of French
Organizzazioni
University of Kent, Canterbury, England, UK

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It's twelve years since I read Alain-Fournier's only novel, Le Grand Meaulnes, but though the full story is hazy it has left an indelible impression of regret for the past; the magic of childhood which , once it's gone is gone, and a fruitless but eternal yearning. The sentiment crops up again in short stories of the time by HG Wells ("The Door in the Wall") and HH Bashforth.
Gibson's well-researched biography (1953) considers the influences of Henri Alban Fournier's short life on his work. Son of a schoolmaster in Central France, a particularly happy village childhood gained perhaps an increased enchantment in the author's imagination when looked back on later from a series of grim boarding schools. Lonely, yet with unreachably high standards, Fournier's romances all seem to fail when compared to the love of his life - a young lady named Yvonne, whom he sees at an art gallery and with whom he engineers a brief but fruitless meeting. Recollections of his ideal woman beset him for years and inform much of his writing.
One does sometimes feel an urge to shout "for goodness sake, move on! She's married...get a life!" as years down the line Fournier's letters are still full of this woman he passed in the street. And to wonderwhether if Fournier had survived the War (he died in 1914 aged 28)his rather repetitive motifs could have forged an entire literary career. And yet there is certainly something poignant in his words that resonates with most of us.
Gibson considers Fournier "A dreamer who believes fervently in the existence of an ideal other world, and who is forever waiting for intimations of its reality, sows the seeds f everlasting dissatisfaction in his own spirit. He is constantly melancholy because he cannot find his place in the world, and he cannot find his place in the world because of his constant melancholy."
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