Jean Christophe : a ten-volume novel (1904-12 in French; English translation, 1910-13) by Romain Rolland, appraising contemporary French & German civilisation.
... is the greatest of French novelists but the worst of French writers. 13 June 1938 Romain Rolland Somnath was drawn to the spiritual life through reading novels like Jean Christophe. I have not read Jean Christophe , but Rolland is an idealist who takes interest in spiritual mysticism—not himself a man of spiritual experience. It is quite natural that such a man's writings should produce ...
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