Romain Rolland: The Man and His Work

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PART ONE BIOGRAPHICAL

PART TWO EARLY WORK AS A DRAMATIST

PART THREE THE HEROIC BIOGRAPHIES

PART IV JEAN CHRISTOPHE

PART FIVE INTERMEZZO SCHERZOSO

PART SIX THE CONSCIENCE OF EUROPE

BY
STEFAN ZWEIG

TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT
BY

EDEN and CEDAR PAUL


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NEW YORK
THOMAS SELTZER
1921

Copyright, 1921, by
THOMAS SELTZER, Inc.
All rights reserved
PRINTED IN U. S. A.


TABLE OF CONTENTS

Dedication   PAGE

PART ONE: BIOGRAPHICAL
I. Introductory 1
II. Early Childhood 3
III. School Days 8
IV. The Normal School 12
V. A Message From Afar 18
VI. Rome 23
VII. The Consecration 29
VIII. Years of Apprenticeship 32
IX. Years of Struggle 37
X. A Decade of Seclusion 43
XI. A Portrait 45
XII. Renown 48
XIII. Rolland As the Embodiment of the European Spirit 52

PART TWO: EARLY WORK AS A DRAMATIST
I. The Work and the Epoch 57
II. The Will To Greatness 63
III. The Creative Cycles 67
IV. The Unknown Dramatic Cycle 71
V. The Tragedies of Faith. Saint Louis, AËrt, 1895-1898 76
VI. Saint Louis. 1894 80
VII. AËrt, 1898 83
VIII. Attempt To Regenerate the French Stage 86
IX. An Appeal to the People 90
X. The Program 94
XI. The Creative Artist 98
XII. The Drama of the Revolution, 1898-1902 100
XIII. The Fourteenth of July, 1902 103
XIV. Danton, 1900 106
XV. The Triumph of Reason, 1899 110
XVI. The Wolves, 1898 113
XVII. The Call Lost in the Void 117
XVIII. A Day Will Come, 1902 119
XIX. The Playwright 123

PART THREE: THE HEROIC BIOGRAPHIES
I. De Profundis 133
II. The Heroes of Suffering 137
III. Beethoven 140
IV. Michelangelo 144
V. Tolstoi 147
VI. The Unwritten Biographies 150

PART FOUR: JEAN CHRISTOPHE
I. Sanctus Christophorus 157
II. Resurrection 160
III. The Origin of the Work 162
IV. The Work without a Formula 166
V. Key to the Characters 172
VI. A Heroic Symphony 177
VII. The Enigma of Creative Work 181
VIII. Jean Christophe 188
IX. Olivier 195
X. Grazia 200
XI. Jean Christophe and his Fellow Men 203
XII. Jean Christophe and the Nations 207
XIII. The Picture of France 211
XIV. The Picture of Germany 217
XV. The Picture of Italy 221
XVI. The Jews 224
XVII. The Generations 229
XVIII. Departure 235

PART FIVE: INTERMEZZO SCHERZO (COLAS BREUGNON)
I. Taken Unawares 241
II. The Burgundian Brother 244
III. Gauloiseries 249
IV. A Frustrate Message 252

PART SIX: THE CONSCIENCE OF EUROPE
I. The Warden of the Inheritance 257
II. Forearmed 260
III. The Place of Refuge 264
IV. The Service of Man 268
V. The Tribunal of the Spirit 271
VI. The Controversy with Gerhardt Hauptmann 277
VII. The Correspondence with Verhaeren 281
VIII. The European Conscience 285
IX. The Manifestoes 289
X. Above the Battle 293
XI. The Campaign against Hatred 297
XII. Opponents 304
XIII. Friends 311
XIV. The Letters 317
XV. The Counselor 320
XVI. The Solitary 324
XVII. The Diary 327
XVIII. The Forerunners and Empedocles 329
XIX. Liluli 335
XX. Clerambault 339
XXI. The Last Appeal 348
XXII. Declaration of the Independence of the Mind 351
XXIII. Envoy 355
Bibliography 357
Index 371

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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Romain Rolland after a drawing by GraniÉ (1909) Frontispiece
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Romain Rolland at the Normal School 12
Leo Tolstoi's Letter 20
Rolland's Transcript of Francesco Provenzale's Aria from Lo Schiavo di sua Moglie 34
Rolland's Transcript of a Melody by Paul Dupin, L'Oncle Gottfried 35
Romain Rolland at the Time of Writing Beethoven 142
Romain Rolland at the Time of Writing Jean Christophe 162
Romain Rolland at the Time of Writing Above the Battle 294
Rolland's Mother 324
Original Manuscript of The Declaration of the Independence of the Mind 352

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