Romains, Jules : Louis-Henri-Jean Farigoule (1885-1972), French novelist, dramatist, & poet, founder of the literary movement known as Unanimisme, & author of Knock (a comedy) & Les hommes de bonne volonté.
... Renaissance, 21, 52, 130, 145, 149, 152, 163, 206-8, 211, 329 Renan, Emest, 91, 94 -Qp'est-ce qu'une nation?, 94n Ribhus; 271 Richelieu, 90 Riemann, 325 Romains, Jules, 69, 360 -Vie Unanime, 360 Romanticism, 212 Romantic Revival, the, 207, 212 Rome, 16, 25, 72, 119, 206, 238-9, 245 Rossetti, 151 Rousseau, 113 ...
... Ramprasad, 218 Reformation, the, 273 Renaissance, the, 71, 239 Renard, Jean-Claude, 209 -"Et Les lIes Feront Silence", 208-9n Rochefoucau1d, 108 Roerich, Nicholas, 150-3 Romains, Jules, 186 Romanticism, 87-8 Romantics, the, 87, 186 Rome, 117 Romeo, 176 Rousseau, 186, 274 -The Social Contract, 274 Rudra(s), 28, 30, 56,339 Rudriyas, 31 Russell, ...
... enough in itself. ( Mother suggested Recherche d'une église by Jules Romains, and sent her own copy for the French teacher to look at. The teacher was "shocked" by certain chapters of the book and reported her feelings to Mother in rather strong terms. Mother replied: ) Recherche d'une église was the book of my choice. Jules Romains is a great writer and his French is of the highest order. When... longer necessary. September 1966 × In a preceding letter Mother had written: "With certain cuts, some of Jules Romains' books would also be good, especially Recherche d'une église ." ...
... 103 Hecate 77 Homer 27 Horatio 23 I Ind 92 India 76, 78, 89, 91, 98, 104 Indra 31 Ionian 52 J Japan 92 Jeanne d'Arc 48 Jules Romains 39 Jules Supervielle 55 Juno 34 Jupiter 32 Jouve 76, 77 K Kali 78 Kalidasa 17, 18, 27, 32 Kanhu 83 Kanwa 8 King Lear 20 King Zeus 34 ...
... intelligent, capable man: he was a governor, and a rather successful one, in several countries. But he understood NOTHING.... He was friends with Jules Romains, 6 and Jules Romains told him he had a very great desire to come here, but couldn't. Jules Romains understood better than my brother, there you are! Strangely, when he was... sixteen, I think, or seventeen... Did I tell you what happened ...
... does Page 359 not seem to believe in any transcendent Spirit or God apart from the universal totality of existence, the unitary life of all, somewhat akin to the Vie Unanime of Jules Romains. The limitation of such a human ideal is for us evident. We demand a total surpassing of man, although that does not mean a rejection of man. Unless human life is built upon foundations quite ...
... Talk on Jules Romain, a famous French writer, the Mother asked, "Those letters of Sri Aurobindo you once read out - were they on Jules Romain?" "Yes, Mother," I answered. "He who could see and hear without the use of eyes and ears? Not Remain Rolland?" Page 143 "No, Mother; it is Jules Romain." "I am asking because Romain might mean Romain Rolland." "Yes, but it is Jules Romain... The Mother, to be fully sure, wrote also the name on a piece of paper and showed it to me. "Then it is all right," she said. "When my brother was the Governor of the Sudan," she added, "he met Jules Romain and asked him to come here. But he never came." "You like his books very much, it seems?" "Yes, I had a whole collection of his works. I don’t know where they are now. Have you read them?"... I have read some. They are fine; some are about occult things." When the Mother was taking a French class in the Playground with a selected few of us, she read out a drama called Dictateur by Jules Romain. The reading was superb. I think a picture was taken of her while reading it. A disciple had sent through me a letter to the Mother saying that she had a strong double attraction, one for Sri ...
... concrete perception—is that the world is one. Creation forms a global unity and there is one pulsation, one throb running through all life. In this regard he is a unanimist of the school of Jules Romains. Life's single pulsation, however, he feels most in the plant world; the global unity there moves in a wonderfully perfect rhythm and harmony. Mankind in its natural, unsophisticated state ...
... that sense of being ill. While there I had the sense of being ill. 1 But the minute you step into their hospitals, you are ill! That's right, it's as I say: it's the medical atmosphere. Jules Romains said it: "A healthy man is a man who doesn't know he is sick." So a priori you are sick—it goes without saying that you are sick. And if they don't immediately find what's wrong with you, it's because ...
... SRI AUROBINDO: But the stories were nothing to speak of except one. I can say something of this one because I still have two pages left of it. All my stories were occult. Have any of you read Jules Romains? He is at once a doctor, an occultist, a novelist and a dramatist. The Mother speaks very highly of him. She says that he doesn't depict the outer circumstances as they are but goes within and writes ...
... Hamlet, Act I, Sc. 5. Page 185 Creation forms a global unity and there is one pulsation, one throb running through all life. In this regard he is a unanimist of the school of Jules Romains. Life's single pulsation, however, he feels most in the plant world; the global unity there moves. in a wonderfully perfect rhythm and harmony. Mankind in its natural, unsophisticated state shares ...
... in thought and ideas and ideals, to whom something of the inner world is revealed, have realised the true nature of the present struggle and have expressed it in no uncertain terms. Here is what Jules Romains, one of the foremost thinkers and litterateurs of contemporary France, says: "Since the end of the Middle Ages, conquerors did harm perhaps to civilization, but they never claimed to bring ...
... thought and ideas and ideals, to whom something of the inner world is revealed, have realised the true nature of the present struggle and have expressed it in no uncertain terms. Here is what Jules Romains, one of the foremost thinkers and litterateurs of contemporary France, says: "Since the end of the Middle Ages, conquerors did harm perhaps to civilization, but they never claimed to bring ...
... thought and ideas and ideals, to whom something of the inner world is revealed, have realised the true nature of the present struggle and have expressed it in no uncertain terms. Here is what Jules Romains, one of the foremost thinkers and litterateurs of contemporary France, says: "Since the end of the Middle Ages, conquerors did harm perhaps to civilization, but they never claimed to ...
... the eye. It has been tried out with people who, for some reason or other, have no vision in the eye. One can develop other centres or another centre of vision, by a continuous, methodical effort. Jules Romains has written a book about it. He himself conducted experiments and obtained very conclusive results. This means that we have a number of possibilities which we let sleep within us, because we ...
... jocularly encouraged in Amrita's early days, Amrita was not considered by the Mother to have an experienced and seasoned "vital being" where sensual matters were concerned. Thus, while admiring Jules Romain's psychological acumen along with his style in his famous series of novels, Les Hommes de la bonne volonté, she asked Udar to go through the books but did not advise Amrita to read them. Evidently ...
... people). He must have spoken to you about this. He wants to write a kind of dialogue to introduce Sri Aurobindo's ideas—it's a good idea—like the conversations in Les Hommes de Bonne Volonté by Jules Romain. He wants to do it, and I told him it was an excellent idea. And not only one type—he should take all types of people who for the moment are closed to this vision of life, from the Catholic, the ...
... certain disorders repeat themselves, you say to yourself that there is something wrong. But it isn't "something" that's wrong! Nothing is right—everything is going wrong. You know the play by Jules Romains in which the doctor declares that a healthy man is a man who doesn't know he is sick? Well, that's the feeling it gives; the disorder is constant, and just because we live in another consciousness ...
... evolutionary step. "He was friends with Jules Romains, and Jules Romains told him that he had a great longing to * A film on Saint Vincent de Paul (1580-1660), a French Catholic priest who founded several orders devoted to helping the poor. Page 47 come here [to Pondicherry to meet Sri Aurobindo and Mother], but that he could not. Jules Romains understood better than my brother... the garden." Mother then remembered that "This was my only visit to Germany. I have never been there since." Sri Aurobindo once referred to this "sight" of Mother's when he was discussing Jules Romains' book Page 137 The Eyeless Sight with some disciples. He said, "In her chil hood, the Mother was able to see even in the dark and she had developed the power of sight everywhere ...
... jocularly encouraged in Amrita's early days, Amrita was not considered by the Mother to have an experienced and seasoned "vital being" where sensual matters were concerned. Thus, while admiring Jules Romain's psychological acumen along with his style in his famous series of novels, Les Homines de la bonne volonte, she asked Udar to go through the books but did not advise Amrita to read them. Evidently ...
... I do not know, in the ordinary life I have known very few people who did not complain of having at least some physical ailment which they carried always with them You know perhaps that play of Jules Romains, Doctor Knock , in which he says that a healthy man is a patient unaware of his sickness. It is usually true. When you are sufficiently busy not to be all the while occupied with yourself, you ...
... unsatisfactory method. Moreover the physical scientist is for the most part resolved not to admit what cannot be neatly packed and labelled and docketed in his own system and its formulas. Dr. Jules Romains, himself a scientist as well as a great writer, makes experiments to prove that men can see and read with the eyes blindfolded, the scientists refuse even to admit or record the results. Khuda Baksh ...
... was my first acquaintance with the French. But not so for Gurudev. He had visited France several times. He had also translated Moliere and Victor Hugo into Bengali. He not only knew famous men like Romain Rolland and Silvain Levy, but his family was very intimate with the Karpelés family. Rathindranath Tagore, the Poet's son, wrote about their visit there in 1920: "Andree Karpeles took us to an art... their turn were revolutionizing literature. The first half of the nineteenth century was the era of Alexandre Dumas, of Victor Hugo and Flaubert; the second half was dominated by Guy de Maupassant, Jules Verne, the father of science fiction, Emile Zola, famed for his I accuse letter—to name but a few. They Page 21 enriched the French language so much that it became, in Sri A ...
... unique in a way as it was full of not only devotion but ananda from the start. It was like this: I had it just now about 3.30 p.m. I think. It is now 4. After my midday meal I read for a while Jules Romain's famous novel Les Hommes de Bonne Volonté and then read a little Gita and Bejoy Krishna and began to do japa of your name, but not concentration properly speaking. I did japa and prayed to you for... . For formerly he wrote to me about you enthusiastically as a creator— sab shrishtikartāi eklā—Sri Aurobindo o tai [All creators are lonely, so is Sri Aurobindo], etc. I suspect also that Romain Rolland's retraction has some- thing to do with Tagore's retraction—albeit private now, but I expect sooner or later he will write somewhere about your becoming a thorough introvert. There of course ...
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