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THE WANDERER is one of the most striking and beautiful evocations of adolescence ever written. Its poignant description of a young French schoolboy's first love and his subsequent search for the young girl who inspired it realizes Alain-Fornier's ambition "to insert the marvellous into reality." Yet reality is never sacrificed for the luminous quality that unfuses the characters are intensely alive; the setting, the winding country roads, peasant life, the cold bleak schoolhouse, the landscape, are brilliantly recaptured. But the novel's greatest strength lies in its profound psychological penetration, a breadth of insight which makes calling this simply "a brilliant novel about adolescence" an understatement. THE WANDERER is deservedly a classic of modern French literature that still has effect and influence today; its title provided the namesake for the online handle of the schoolboy hero in Michael Stutz's evocative, underground book of an adolescence experienced on the early Internet, CIRCUITS OF THE WIND.
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