Jean-Christophe : il capolavoro letterario e politico di Romain Rolland

The article examines the Romain Rolland's literary masterpiece, entitled Jean-Cristophe and published in ten volumes from 1904 to 1912. For this writing, he received the Nobel Prize in 1915. However, the novel is also a text of political and prophetic nature, in addition to being a work of literature. In fact, the two protagonists' biographical events, the German Jean-Christophe and the French Olivier, symbolizes the sympathy that had to bind France and Germany, while the First World War proved where hatred and nationalism took places. The novel is also a proof of Rolland's pacifist beliefs many years before World War II. [Publisher's text].