Jean-Christophe by Romain Rolland (the Complete 10-Volume Novel), Translated by Gilbert Cannan, with an Introduction by Nicholas Tamblyn and Illustrations by Katherine Eglund (Illustrated) |
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Translator:
| Cannan, Gilbert |
Author:
| Tamblyn, Nicholas Rolland, Romain |
Illustrator:
| Eglund, Katherine |
ISBN: | 978-1-9735-8408-7 |
Publication Date: | Mar 2018 |
Publisher: | Independently Published
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $22.99 |
Book Description:
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"Jean-Christophe" by Romain Rolland. This is an old edition that has been replaced.
Romain Rolland was born in the commune of Clamecy, Nièvre in central France in 1866. He studied philosophy, but then focussed on history and graduated from the École normale supérieure in 1889. He spent two years in Rome, where he discovered various old and new masterpieces, and when he returned to France he received his doctoral degree (the subject of his thesis being the history of opera in...
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"Jean-Christophe" by Romain Rolland. This is an old edition that has been replaced.
Romain Rolland was born in the commune of Clamecy, Nièvre in central France in 1866. He studied philosophy, but then focussed on history and graduated from the École normale supérieure in 1889. He spent two years in Rome, where he discovered various old and new masterpieces, and when he returned to France he received his doctoral degree (the subject of his thesis being the history of opera in Europe before Lully and Scarlatti), and then taught at various lycées in Paris for the next two decades. From 1902 to 1911, he directed the newly established music school École des Hautes Études Sociales, and in 1903 he was appointed first chair of music history at the Sorbonne. Rolland's most celebrated work is his ten-volume roman-fleuve Jean-Christophe (1904-1912), and his other novels are Colas Breugnon (1919), Clérambault (1920), Pierre et Luce (1920) and his second roman-fleuve, the seven-volume L'âme enchantée (1922-1933). He also passionately advocated a "people's theatre," and wrote an eminent biography of Beethoven (1903). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1915. He died in Vézelay in central France in 1944.