Roman Rowland, nobel laureate in literature and author of "Celebrity Biography", is a brilliant novelist and an excellent essayist. His essays, especially his reading essays, are the most valuable part of his prose work, full of wisdom and insight.
In this book, Romain Rolland makes an emotional and in-depth evaluation of the masters who have influenced him: he portrays the process of tolstoy who introduced him to the literary world from a young writer to a people's writer; he analyzes Shakespeare's plays with incisive insights, and is as familiar with Shakespeare as any Shakespeare expert; he also has a unique entry point for the complex and incomprehensible Goethe in the eyes of readers, grasping the core of Goethe's thought and helping readers better understand these classic works.
As an internationally acclaimed writer, Romain Rolland's vision is not limited to two or three writers. In the book, his appreciation of literature and art spans ancient and modern times, and pays attention to works all over the world: whether it is the fragments of the poems of the ancient Greek philosopher Empedocle, the pacifist ideas of Mahatma Gandhi in India, the works of Karl Spitler, the first Swiss poet to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, or "How Steel is Made"... Romain Roland is happy to introduce it to the reader.
Different from ordinary literary critics, Roman Roland is not satisfied with the glitz and pan, but to delve deeply into interested writers, coupled with Roland's profound achievements in music and art, making him stand at a height that is difficult for ordinary writers to reach, not only from the theory and thought to evaluate the writer's works, but also to appreciate their unique talents and artistic souls with sensual power. In reading, he starts from learning and strives to find valuable things and turn them into nourishment for his own benefit; at the same time, his classical interpretation and interpretation also provides convenience for us to read and understand the works of these writers. Roman Rowland's reading essays are a valuable spiritual treasure he has left to modern readers.
"Roman Roland Reading Essay"
[French] by Romain Rolland / Translated by Zheng Klu
