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...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...
...Zweig until the World War was more of a traveler than an author. His first popular work was an anti-War play, Jeremiah, produced in Switzerland to avoid German and Austrian censorship. He now writes to carry out a conscious literary program. Other translated works: Paul Verlaine, Emile Verhaeren, Romain Rolland, Passion and Pain, Invisible Collection, Conflicts, Adepts in Self-Portraiture, Joseph Fouché, Amok...
Says Author Bloch's great & good friend Romain Rolland, himself a famed novelist (Jean-Christophe): "I have known and loved him as a brother for 15 years . . . these stormy 15 years which have been the touchstone of souls and of friendships have only served to consecrate our mutual faith . . . within this virile artist who thinks as he writes, and who acts as he thinks, there is a character which is the equal...
...Romain Rolland", Professor Morize, Harvard...
...Goethe's Faust, directed by Friedrich Holl, follow with a Shaw revival in November and carry through the winter with Meteor by S. N. Behrman and Sil-Vara's Playing at Love. Possibly also the Guild will do a new O'Neill play tentatively entitled Dynamo, Romain Rolland's The Game of Love and Death, Turgenev's A Month in the Country or The Genius and His Brother, by Sil-Vara...