Author: Romain Rolland
Translator: Song-gook Jeong
Publisher: Hongshin Munhwasa
3-Volume Set | 210*148mm
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About This Book
From Kirkus Reviews
Romain Rolland (18661944), who won the 1915 Nobel Prize for
Literature, was a versatile and indefatigable man of letters, best
remembered today for this massive roman-fleuve (published in three
volumes, between 1902 and 1912), which may best be described as the
history of a great musician's sensibility, the growth of his art, and
the realization of his goal--roughly, the expression of man's moral
nature through the creation of art. A variety of vividly rendered
friends and lovers function as counterpoints to the hero's personality
and struggles. German-born Jean-Christophe Krafft, a simulacrum of
Beethoven (of whom Rolland wrote a biography) emerges from an
unfulfilling provincial childhood into a conflicted maturity
characterized by a series of deeply formative friendships and liaisons,
and vacillating relationships with the differing cultures (of Germany,
France, and finally Italy) that, to different degrees, absorb and
transform him. Louis Auchincloss has supplied an introduction for this
new edition, and despite his great admiration for Rolland's
accomplishment, he does concede that this enormously long novel is
weighed down by a repetitive ``denunciation of the current social and
artistic scene.'' Contemporary readers will surely also be impatient
with its sententious symbolism and occasionally cloying romanticism. But
persistence and concentration do pay off: Rolland's artist-hero is
explored with an empathetic thoroughness that is rare in fiction, and
readers who truly apply themselves to this frustrating masterwork may
well feel that they have, in so doing, experienced something very like
an education.
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