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Suspend your disbelief

Here is a lovely talk about the power of fiction, and a book as "a doorway to wonder" - it should make you smile!

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The 'flipside' of this, you might say, is the real experience which inspires a fictitious one, and this article reveals the fairly mundane basis for the dream-like party scene in Alain-Fournier's Le Grand Meaulnes, which itself had a very famous literary successor.

22 September 2014 in Miscellaneous | Permalink

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That was wonderful. Thanks for sharing.

Posted by: Pam | 22 September 2014 at 07:12 PM

You're welcome, Pam, and I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Posted by: Cornflower | 22 September 2014 at 09:59 PM

How strange is it that the novel I am reading is Alain-Fournier's Le Grand Meaulnes! It is a strange book but draws one into its world. An adult fairy story almost.

Posted by: JanetD | 22 September 2014 at 10:38 PM

That's a good way to put it, Janet.

Posted by: Cornflower | 23 September 2014 at 09:44 AM

Thank you for posting this, it was really lovely. We have his Extra Yarn, the story of a girl kintting with magical multicoloured yarn, which I'm afraid I seem to like more than my daughter does...

Posted by: MzTallulah | 24 September 2014 at 02:04 PM

How funny!

Posted by: Cornflower | 24 September 2014 at 03:36 PM

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