ROMAIN ROLLAND’S
JEAN-CHRISTOPHE
DAWN - MORNING - YOUTH - REVOLT
Translated by GILBERT CANNAN.
600 pp. $1.50 net; by mail, $1.62.
It commences with vivid episodes of this musician’s childhood, his fears, fancies, and troubles, and his almost uncanny musical sense. He plays before the Grand Duke at seven, but he is destined for greater things. An idol of the hour, in some ways suggesting Richard Strauss, tries in vain to wreck his faith in his career. Early love episodes follow, and at the close the hero, like Wagner, has to fly, a hopeful exile.
“‘Hats off, gentlemen—a genius.’ ... Has the time come for the 20th century to uncover before a master work? A book as big, as elemental, as original as though the art of fiction began to-day.”—Springfield Republican. (Entire notice on application.)
“The most momentous novel that has come to us from France, or from any other European country, in a decade.... Highly commendable and effective translation ... the story moves at a rapid pace. It never lags.”—E. F. Edgett in Boston Transcript.
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