Romain Rolland's life coincided closely with the span of the French
Third Republic, an age of which he was an acute and critical
observer. A mind combining an unusual breadth of sympathies with
uncompromisingly lofty values and a novelist's eye for detail, his
interests cover a wide range of areas - history, musicology,
biography, politics, religion, the East - and his correspondence
with both the famous and the obscure, is exceptionally rich. He is
remembered for his plays on the French Revolution, his work on
Beethoven, his novels, his biographies, his opposition to the First
World War, his desperate attempts between the wars to reconcile
Gandhism and Leninism and, during the Occupation, his nostalgia for
the Catholic faith of his forbears. Drawing on the wealth of the
unpublished Archives Romain Rolland, this book offers a fresh
perspective on the events of an often turbulent life and traces the
changing patterns of his thought, which disconcerted his friends by
its constant evolution. Rolland's work is unified by a fierce
desire for independence, an insistence that the psychological force
of faith is more important than its content, by an obsession with
historical process and by a constant musicianly quest for harmony,
or the reconciliation of discords within a synthetic whole. The
author attempts to do justice to every side of Romain Rolland's
output, showing how each of his works in their diverse genres
contributes to the overall thrust of his developing thought. Though
covering his political thought, the author avoids over-stressing
it, as much previous criticism has done, and gives due weight to
the work of his last years, which so far has been very imperfectly
studied.
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