我们曾经敬奉之至的多少座丰碑都已坍塌破碎,被动荡夷为平地;罗曼·罗兰树起的丰碑却挺过枪林弹雨空过唇枪舌剑,傲然几立.

他们作品是人们强大的精神支柱,在这个骚动的世界上,一节具有自由灵魂的人们,都可以到这儿录求安慰.

他的著作经过高温熔炉的所复冶炼,盈溢 着一种悲天悯人的宗教情怀,以及对人类无限深情的眷有,他恰像一具精的小提琴,既能弹奏出无限温柔与和谐嫩口天婴般 妙唱,也能加入到庞大乐队中合奏出汪洋大海汹涌澎湃的洪章,他的思想在席卷着欧洲的战争风暴中巍然不动

PART ONE: BIOGRAPHICAL

TPRT TOW:EARLY WORK AS A DRAMATIST

PART THREE:THE HEROIC BIOGRAPHIES

PART FOUR: JEAN CHRISTOPHE

TPRT FIVE: INTERMEZZO (COLAS BREUGNON)

PART SIX :THE CONSXIENCE OF EUROPE

THE first fifty years of Romain Rolland's life were passed in mconspicuous aud almost soli-tary labors. Thenceforward, his name was to become a storm center of European discussion. Until shortly before the apocalyptic year, hardly an artist of our days

worked in such completeotheremen or re-ceived so litde recognition. Since that year, no artist has been the subjct of so much conroversy. His fundamental ideas were notdestined to make themselves generally known unil therewas a worId in arms bent

upon destroying tbem.Euvious fate works ever thun, iute-g the livesof the great with tragical threads. She tries her powersto the uttermost upou the theng, Sending events to runcowher to their plans, permeating their lives with strangeallegories, imposi

ng obstacles in their pathtwt theymay be guided more unmistakabiy in the right course.Fate plays with them, Plays a game with a subime issue,

for all experince is precious.Think of the greatestamong our contemporaries; thinl of Wagner NietzscheDostoevsky, Strindberg; in the case of each ofthern, deshay ba8 SUPeradded to the creayions of theartist's mind, the drama of personal experience.Notably do these considerations apply to the life ofRomain Ronand The sigUificance of his lifes workboomes Plain only when it is conemplated as a whole.It was slowly produced, for it had to encounter greatdangers; it was a gradual revelation, tardily consum-mated. foundations of this splendid structure weredeeply dug in the form ground of knowledge, and werelaid upon the hidden masonry years spent in isola-tion. Thus tempered by tha ordeal of a furnace seventimes heated his work has the essential imprint of hu-manity.Precisely owing to tha strength of its founda-tions, to the solidity of its moral energy, was Rolland'sthough able to stand unshaken throughout the war stormsthat have been ravaging Europe. While other monu-ments to which we had looked up with veneration, craching and crumbling, have been leveled with the quakingearth, the monument he had builded stands form"abovethe battle," above the medley of opinions, a pillar ofstrength towards which all free spirits can turn for con-solation amid the tumul of the world.

梦一般的音乐之都维也纳蕴育出的文学天才一位深迫的世界主义者与和平主义者用生命去感知并促进个体之间、民族之间的相互理解对未知世界、个人命运充满无尽好奇与创作的激情心理分析的方法悄无声息地融入他的作品中探寻人类内心深处跌宕多变的激情关照个体的痛苦与顽强不息的挣扎这使得他的作品跨越了国别与民族的界限在世界各地的读者心中点燃人性之光并成为他们汲取人生哲思的无尽源泉他用自身的生命与苦难时代抗争的不屈姿态也永远留在了纷繁的历史记忆之中