Jean-Christophe (3 books) (Illustrated) (eMagination Masterpiece Classics Book 10) Kindle Edition

June 6/2013: Fixed format, Fixed link issues. Jean-Christophe (1904-1912) is the novel in ten volumes by Romain Rolland for which he received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915.The release covers the 10 volumes with 3 books bundled into one eBook.The first four volumes are grouped as Jean-Christophe, the next three as Jean-Christophe à Paris, and the last three as La fin du voyage ("Journey's End"). The central character, Jean-Christophe Krafft, is a German musician of Belgian extraction, a composer of genius whose life is depicted from cradle to grave. The fiction is of love, passion, and personal struggle.Romain write about the novel himself: This is a "musical novel" in which emotions, not classical action, dictated the course of events. "When you see a man, do you ask yourself whether he is a novel or a poem? [...] Jean-Christophe has always seemed to me to flow like a river; I have said as much from the first pages." This coined the term roman-fleuve (river-novel), which has since been applied to other novel sequences in the same style. Read more