Jean-Christophe

"...[T]he history of a great musician's sensibility, the growth of his art, and the realization of his goal--roughly, the expression of man's moral nature through the creation of art. A variety of vividly rendered friends and lovers function as counterpoints to the hero's personality and struggles....Rolland's artist-hero is explored with an empathetic thoroughness that is rare in fiction, and readers who truly apply themselves to this frustrating masterwork may well feel that they have, in so doing, experienced something very like an education."Rolland, Romain is the author of 'Jean-Christophe ', published 2004 under ISBN 9781419127380 and ISBN 1419127381.