Jean-Christophe Journey's End

By Romain Rolland

Book Overview

" ...]Chauvinesque tirade )-plunged into lumbering praise of his genius, of which it knew nothing, -nothing except a few tame melodies, dating from Christophe's early days in Germany, which Christophe, who was ashamed of them, would have liked to have seen destroyed. But if the author of the article knew nothing at all about Christophe's work, he made up for it in his knowledge of his plans-or rather such plans as he invented for him. A few words let fall by Christophe or Olivier, or even by Goujart, who pretended to be well-informed, had been enough for him to construct a fanciful Jean-Christophe, "a Republican genius, -the great musician of democracy." He seized the opportunity to decry various contemporary ...]."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1515095975
• ISBN13: 9781515095972
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 484 Pages
• Weight: 1.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.4" x 9.7"