Paris, Ollendorff, 1920.
1 vol. (125 x 165 mm) of 377 p. and [1] f. Half green morocco with corners, gilt fillets on covers, spine with raised bands, gilt title and top edge, date gilt at foot, original wrappers and spine preserved (binding signed Duhayon).
First edition.
One of 350 copies on Arches paper (no. 6).
One of 350 copies on Arches paper (no. 6).
One of three texts written during the First World War, while Rolland was living in Switzerland, where he was at the time war was declared. This “story of a free conscience” is a meditative novel, the account of a man struggling with himself, to which Zweig devoted a long study in his Romain Rolland: a “struggle to conquer his personal freedom” and to courageously denounce the tragedy of war, becoming “one against all” and a “martyr to truth.”
Spine slightly faded.
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