Romain Rolland (French: [Ê É"lÉ'̃]; 29 January 1866 â€" 30 December
1944) was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and
mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a
tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the
sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types
of human beings".[1]He was a leading supporter of Josef Stalin in
France and is also noted for his correspondence with and influence on
Sigmund Freud.Rolland was born in Clamecy, Nièvre into a family that
had both wealthy townspeople and farmers in its lineage. Writing
introspectively in his Voyage intérieur (1942), he sees himself as a
representative of an "antique species". He would cast these ancestors
in Colas Breugnon (1919).
1944) was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and
mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a
tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the
sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types
of human beings".[1]He was a leading supporter of Josef Stalin in
France and is also noted for his correspondence with and influence on
Sigmund Freud.Rolland was born in Clamecy, Nièvre into a family that
had both wealthy townspeople and farmers in its lineage. Writing
introspectively in his Voyage intérieur (1942), he sees himself as a
representative of an "antique species". He would cast these ancestors
in Colas Breugnon (1919).
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