Jean-Christophe
Paris, Albin Michel, (January) 1949.
1 vol. (130 x 185 mm) of 1593 p. and [6] f. Brown morocco, spine with raised bands and fleurons, gilt title, gilt edges, date gilt at foot (English binding).
Definitive edition.
A vast Bildungsroman, Jean-Christophe traces the entire life of Jean-Christophe Krafft, a German musician of genius, from his childhood on the banks of the Rhine to his maturity and death. Through this passionate, unruly hero, deeply devoted to music, Romain Rolland composes the portrait of a European conscience confronting the trials of creation, while around him unfolds a broad depiction of German and French society at the turn of the twentieth century.
This definitive edition, published a few years after his death, brings together the text in the form fixed for posterity. It is here luxuriously bound.
From the library of Robert Marceau
#26878
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