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Nationality: French. Writing period: 1902–1944. Influences: Goethe, Leo Tolstoy. Romain Rolland (January 29, 1866 – December 30, 1944) was a French writer and dramatist, best known as the author of the novel series Jean-Christophe (1904-1912). His first book was published in 1902, when he was already 36 years old.
Jul 7, 2015 · The declaration was published in the socialist newspaper L’Humanité on June 26, 1919, and was later included in the out-of-print treasure Hermann Hesse & Romain Rolland: Correspondence, Diary Entries and Reflections (public library) — Rolland enclosed the text in an April 1919 letter to Hesse, asking the beloved German writer to be among ...
Sep 22, 2016 · For many Europeans of my generation—those who came of age before World War II—Romain Rolland (1866-1944) was not only the most important writer of our time but a beacon of light in a very dark world. Novelist, essayist, dramatist, art historian, humanist, pacifist, idealist without compare, he was our great guide in the battle against ...
French novelist, dramatist, and essayist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915. Born at Clamecy, Mièvre, into a well-established middle-class family, Rolland studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, later lecturing there and at the Sorbonne on history, art, and the history of music.
Romain Rolland (29 January 1866 – 30 December 1944) was a French writer, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915. “Every man who is truly a man must learn to be alone in the midst of all others, and if need be against all others.”
Romain Rolland (1866-1944) was a French writer, playwright, and art historian. He is best known for his biography of the German composer, Beethoven, and for his novel, "Jean-Christophe," a series of ten novels published between 1904 and 1912. Rolland was born in Clamecy, France.
Aug 29, 2017 · In a letter written in 1927, the French writer Romain Rolland asked Sigmund Freud to analyse the ‘oceanic feeling,’ a religious feeling of oneness with the entire universe. I will argue that Rolland’s intentions in introducing the oceanic feeling to Freud were much more complex, multifaceted, and critical than most scholars have acknowledged.
