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Romain Rolland

Also known as R.Rolland

French author (1866-1944)

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Romain Rolland was a French writer and intellectual who lived from 1866 to 1944 and became known for his novels, essays, and pacifist activism during a turbulent period of European history. His works explored themes of individual conscience and social responsibility, and he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1915, reflecting his significant influence on European thought and culture.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1866
Died: 1944
Works: 981

Top works

ジャン・クリストフ
Jean-Christophe
Manifiesto contra la guerra imperialista
Liquidation de l'affaire Guilbeaux
Danton

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: France
Active from: 1866-01-29
Active to: 1944-12-30

Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 11
Total plays: 38

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Welcome to the Tidyverse
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Development and testing of a general amber force field
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Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
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Sarcopenia: revised European consensus on definition and diagnosis
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Sarcopenia: European consensus on definition and diagnosis
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Quotes

“Theatre supposes lives that are poor and agitated, a people searching in dreams for a refuge from thought. If we were happier and freer we should not feel hungry for theatre. ... A people that is happy and free has need of festivities more than of theatres; it will always see in itself the finest spectacle.”
“There is only one necessary condition for the emergence of a new theatre, that the stage and auditorium should be open to the masses, should be able to contain a people and the actions of a people.”
“I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.”
“Are you descendants of Goethe or of Attila the Hun?”
“What I especially love in Lefebvre is this intimate alliance — which for me makes the true man — of pessimism of the intelligence, which penetrates every illusion, and optimism of the will.”
“In politics, he has always been a republican with advanced Socialist sympathies, and internationalist at heart, and, as they said in the eighteenth century, a "citizen of the world." He has always fought social injustice. In art, he loves, above all, Beethoven, Shakespeare, and Goethe...Rembrandt is the painter dearest to him. But his chosen country is Italy.”

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Image: Romain Rolland 1915.jpg

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Commons category: Romain Rolland
date of birth: 1866-01-29
date of death: 1944-12-30
Commons Creator page: Romain Rolland
name in native language: Romain Rolland
start of work period: 1888-00-00
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Works in European collections

13 objects attributed to Romain Rolland, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Pierre and Luce

Les origines du théâtre lyrique moderne : histoire de l'opéra en Europe avant Lully et Scarlatti

Ludwig van Beethoven

Johann Christof. Kinder- und Jugendjahre Roman

Johann Christof in Paris Roman

Johann Christof am Ziel Roman

Beethovens Meisterjahre : von der Eroica bis zur Appassionata

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Romain Rolland ( French: [ʁɔmɛ̃ ʁɔlɑ̃]; 29 January 1866 – 30 December 1944) was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings".

He was an admirer of Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore, wrote a still relevant biography of Gandhi, and is also noted for his correspondence with numerous writers and thinkers across the globe including Maxim Gorki, Rabindranath Tagore and Sigmund Freud.