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Death of A World, by Romain Rolland...
Chanson de Rolland...
...thousand arms grope, and whose blind trunks lap in the dark. And the few individuals, whose personalities . . . still keep afloat . . . are nearly all, today, artificial products, without roots or seeds, without ancestors or descendants, without ties, associates or future." This is the theme of the latest stave in Romain Rolland's protracted swan son?. Author Rolland's famed ten-volume Jean Christophe, published before the War, told everything there was to tell about a musician of genius. The Soul Enchanted, of which the Death of a World is the fourth but not last installment, has a woman...
...promote the study of international private and public law," the Law Faculty of the University of Leiden, Rolland, his announced an international prize essay contest, open to all scholars who can write German, English, French or Dutch. The essay is to be "a critical and complete study, based exclusively on the published sources, of the origin of the treaties of London of April 19, 1838 (1830-1839), as well as of the international legal relations between Belgium and the Netherlands since that date...
...Romain Rolland wrote an epic about an individual (Jean Christophe); John Galsworthy wrote one about a family (The Forsyte Saga); but Jules Romains' magnum opus will seek comparison with an earlier, more comprehensive epic: La Comedie Humaine of Honoré de Balzac. No mere tetralogy, its author himself does not say how many volumes will go to make up the whole. Its purpose: to give a true picture of Paris in the 20th Century. No individual, no family history could adequately cover so broad a scene. Says Author Romains: "What I see before my eyes is life...