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Jean-Christophe
章节(34)
- Preface 0:00
- Epigraph 8:41
- Part I: Dawn: I 8:52
- Part I: Dawn — II 1:09:57
- Part I: Dawn — III 2:59:05
- Part II: Morning: I: The Death of Jean Michel 4:31:22
- Part II: Morning — II: Otto 6:00:40
- Part II: Morning — III: Minna 7:01:07
- Part III: Youth: Epigraph 9:00:01
- Part III: Youth — I: The House of Euler 9:00:15
- Part III: Youth — II: Sabine 10:53:19
- Part III: Youth — III: Ada 12:43:51
- Part IV: Revolt: I: Shifting Sands 14:52:16
- Part IV: Revolt — II: Engulfed 18:10:10
- Part IV: Revolt — III: Deliverance 21:17:05
- Part V: The Marketplace: I 25:01:37
- Part V: The Marketplace — II 28:22:05
- Part V: The Marketplace — III 30:09:08
- Part VI: Antoinette: I 32:35:14
- Part VII: The House: I 36:37:40
- Part VII: The House — II 39:18:00
- Part VII: The House — III 43:14:00
- Part VIII: Love and Friendship: I 43:27:06
- Part VIII: Love and Friendship — Epilogue 50:08:10
- Part IX: The Burning Bush: I 50:12:54
- Part IX: The Burning Bush — II 53:31:28
- Part IX: The Burning Bush — Epilogue 56:55:10
- Part X: The New Dawn: Dedication 57:52:57
- Part X: The New Dawn — Preface to the Last Volume of Jean-Christophe 57:53:13
- Part X: The New Dawn — Prologue 57:54:15
- Part X: The New Dawn — I 57:57:22
- Part X: The New Dawn — II 59:24:53
- Part X: The New Dawn — III 61:49:06
- Part X: The New Dawn — IV 63:04:20
Jean-Christophe Krafft, born into a Belgian-German family of musicians, seems destined for music from an early age: he is sensitive to sound, learns to play the piano, and, with the help of his grandfather, soon writes his first compositions. This leads him to become a court musician of the Grand Duchy on the Rhine, where he lives. Along the way, he experiences love, setbacks, poverty, but also success.
After a violent incident forces him to flee, he finds shelter in Paris, where he meets a friend for life: Olivier. But his idealistic worldview and stubborn character repeatedly get him into trouble, forcing him to seek refuge in Switzerland.
Jean-Christophe is the story of a man, chronicled from his birth to his death. Romain Rolland, strongly motivated by his own biography of Beethoven, always envisioned it as a novel that flows “like a river”: meandering, propelled by its own force, not to be channeled by plot. This is embodied in Jean-Christophe through extensive digressions on the author’s views on nationality, politics, music, and culture in early twentieth century Europe. Jean-Christophe thus became the first roman-fleuve, or river-novel, a term most famously applied to Proust’s In Search of Lost Time. For this contribution to literature, Rolland was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1915.
Jean-Christophe was published in ten volumes in the original French, while Gilbert Cannan’s English translation appeared in 3 volumes, roughly encompassing Jean-Christophe’s youth and adolescence, his adulthood, and the latter years of his life. This Standard Ebooks edition brings all volumes of Cannan’s translation together.