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Romain Rolland Bibliography

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Chronology of Romain Rolland's works

1895

The Origins of Modern Lyric Theatre – A History of Opera in Europe before Lully and Scarlatti (Les Origines du théâtre lyrique moderne – Histoire de l’opéra en Europe avant Lully et Scarlatti) – Doctoral Dissertation, E. Thorin, Paris.

Cur ars picturae apud Italos XVI saeculi deciderit – Supplementary Doctoral Thesis, E. Thorin, Paris.

1897

Saint Louis, Revue de Paris (March 1, March 15, April 1).

1898

Aërt, Cahiers de la Quinzaine Editions.

The Wolves (Les Loups), Charles Péguy Editions at G. Bellais.

The Triumph of Reason (Le Triomphe de la Raison), Revue d’Art Dramatique.

Danton, Revue d’Art Dramatique; republished in 1901 by Cahiers de la Quinzaine.

1902

The Fourteenth of July (Le Quatorze Juillet), Cahiers de la Quinzaine.

1903

Life of Beethoven (Vie de Beethoven), Cahiers de la Quinzaine.

The Time Will Come (Le Temps viendra), Cahiers de la Quinzaine.

The People's Theatre (Le Théâtre du Peuple), a collection of articles previously published between 1900 and 1903 in various journals, notably the Revue d’Art Dramatique, Cahiers de la Quinzaine.

1904–1912

Publication of Jean-Christophe in Cahiers de la Quinzaine:

  • Dawn (L’Aube) (1904)

  • Morning (Le Matin) (1904)

  • The Adolescent (L’Adolescent) (1905)

  • The Revolt, Parts I & II (La Révolte) (1906)

  • The Revolt, Part III (1907)

  • The Fair in the Square (La Foire sur la Place) (1908)

  • Antoinette (1908)

  • In the House (Dans la Maison) (1909)

  • The Friends (Les Amies) (1910)

  • The Burning Bush (Le Buisson Ardent) (1911)

  • The New Day (La Nouvelle Journée) (1912)

1905

Michelangelo (Michel-Ange), Librairie de l’Art Ancien et Moderne.

1906

The Life of Michelangelo (La Vie de Michel-Ange), Cahiers de la Quinzaine.

1908

Musicians of Today (Musiciens d’aujourd’hui), collection of essays, Hachette.

Musicians of the Past (Musiciens d’autrefois), collection of essays, Hachette.

1909

Theatre of the Revolution (Théâtre de la Révolution) including:

  • Danton

  • The Fourteenth of July

  • The Wolves

Published by Hachette.

1910

Handel (Haendel), Alcan.

1911

The Life of Tolstoy (Vie de Tolstoï), Hachette.

1913

The Tragedies of Faith (Les Tragédies de la Foi) including:

  • Saint Louis

  • Aërt

  • The Triumph of Reason

Published by Hachette.

1915

Above the Battle (Au-dessus de la Mêlée), Ollendorff.

1919

The Precursors (Les Précurseurs), Ollendorff.

Colas Breugnon, Ollendorff.

Liluli, Le Sablier (Geneva), later republished by Ollendorff in 1920.

1920

Clérambault, Ollendorff.

Pierre and Luce (Pierre et Luce), Le Sablier (Geneva), later Ollendorff.

A Musical Journey into the Past (Voyage musical au pays du passé), collection of essays, Hachette.

1922

The Enchanted Soul, Volume I: Annette and Sylvie (Annette et Sylvie), Ollendorff.

1923

The Precursors, expanded edition, Ollendorff.

1924

The Enchanted Soul, Volume II: Summer (L’Été), Ollendorff.

Mahatma Gandhi, Stock.

1925

The Game of Love and Death (Le Jeu de l’amour et de la mort), Le Sablier, later Albin Michel.

1926

Flowering Easter (Pâques Fleuries), Le Sablier and Albin Michel.

1927

The Enchanted Soul, Volume III: Mother and Son (Mère et Fils), Albin Michel.

1928

Beethoven: The Great Creative Epochs, Volumes I & II: From the Heroic to the Appassionata (De l’Héroïque à l’Appassionata), Le Sablier.

The Leonides (Les Léonides), Le Sablier and Albin Michel.

1929

Essay on the Mysticism and Action of Living India (Essai sur la mystique et l’action de l’Inde vivante), 2 volumes, Stock.

The Life of Ramakrishna (La Vie de Ramakrishna).

The Life of Vivekananda and the Universal Gospel (La Vie de Vivekananda et l’Évangile universel).

1930

Goethe and Beethoven (Goethe et Beethoven), Le Sablier.

1931

Introduction to The Free Spirit (L’Esprit Libre) – Europe, June 15, 1931; later included in Fifteen Years of Struggle.

Empedocles of Agrigentum, followed by The Lightning Flash of Spinoza (L’Éclair de Spinoza), Le Sablier.

1933

The Enchanted Soul, Volume IV: The Annunciator (L’Annonciatrice), Albin Michel.

1935

Fifteen Years of Struggle (Quinze ans de Combat), collection of articles, Rieder.

Through Revolution, Peace (Par la Révolution, la Paix), collection of articles, Éditions Sociales Internationales.

1936

Companions of the Road (Compagnons de Route), collection of articles, Le Sablier.

1937

Beethoven: The Great Creative Epochs – The Song of Resurrection (Le Chant de la Résurrection), 2 volumes, Le Sablier.

1938

The Immortal Pages of Rousseau (Les Pages Immortelles de Rousseau), introduction by Romain Rolland, Corrêa.

1939

Robespierre, Albin Michel.

1942

The Inner Journey (Le Voyage intérieur), Albin Michel.

1943

Beethoven: The Great Creative Epochs – The Interrupted Cathedral (La Cathédrale interrompue), 2 volumes, Le Sablier.

1945

Beethoven: Finita Comoedia, Le Sablier.

Péguy, 2 volumes, Albin Michel.

Works

1. Novels

Jean-Christophe, definitive one-volume edition, Albin Michel, 1966.

Colas Breugnon, Ollendorff, 1919.

Pierre and Luce (Pierre et Luce), Albin Michel, 1958.

Clérambault, Albin Michel, n.d.

The Enchanted Soul (L’Âme enchantée), definitive one-volume edition, Albin Michel, 1967.

2. Theatre

Savonarola (1896), Europe, Nos. 109–110, 1955.

The Vanquished (Les Vaincus) (1897), Éditions Lumière, Antwerp, 1922.

The Tragedies of Faith (Les Tragédies de la Foi), Albin Michel, 1970.

The Triumph of Reason (Le Triomphe de la Raison), Albin Michel, 1970.

Theatre of the Revolution (Théâtre de la Révolution), Albin Michel, 1926.

Madame de Montespan (La Montespan), L’Art Dramatique et Musical, 1904.

The Three Lovers (Les Trois Amoureuses), L’Art Dramatique et Musical, 1905.

Liluli, Albin Michel, 1926.

The Revolt of the Machines, or Unleashed Thought (La Révolte des Machines ou La Pensée Déchaînée), Éditions du Sablier, 1921.

The Game of Love and Death (Le Jeu de l’Amour et de la Mort), Albin Michel, 1953.

Flowering Easter (Pâques-Fleuries), Albin Michel, 1926.

The Leonides (Les Léonides), Albin Michel, 1928.

Robespierre, Albin Michel, 1939.

3. Biographies

Millet, Duckworth, London, 1902.

Life of Beethoven (Vie de Beethoven), Hachette, 1964.

The Life of Michelangelo (Vie de Michel-Ange), Hachette, 1964.

Handel (Haendel), enlarged edition, Albin Michel, 1951.

The Life of Tolstoy (Vie de Tolstoï), Hachette, 1913.

Mahatma Gandhi, enlarged edition, Stock, 1930.

Beethoven: The Great Creative Epochs (Beethoven, les Grandes Époques Créatrices), Albin Michel, 1966.

Essay on the Mysticism and Action of Living India, Vol. I: The Life of Ramakrishna (La Vie de Ramakrishna), Stock, 1952.

Essay on the Mysticism and Action of Living India, Vol. II: The Life of Vivekananda and the Universal Gospel (La Vie de Vivekananda et l’Évangile Universel), Stock, 1977.

Péguy, 2 volumes, Albin Michel, 1945.

4. Criticism and History

The Origins of Modern Lyric Theatre: A History of Opera before Lully and Scarlatti (Les Origines du Théâtre Lyrique Moderne), De Boccard, 1931.

On the Decline of Italian Painting in the Sixteenth Century (De la Décadence de la Peinture Italienne au XVIe Siècle), Albin Michel, 1957.

The People's Theatre (Le Théâtre du Peuple), Albin Michel, 1926.

Michelangelo (Michel-Ange), revised edition, Albin Michel, 1943.

Musicians of the Past (Musiciens d’Autrefois), Hachette, 1908.

Musicians of Today (Musiciens d’Aujourd’hui), Hachette, 1908.

A Musical Journey into the Land of the Past (Voyage Musical au Pays du Passé), Hachette, 1920.

Companions of the Road (Compagnons de Route), enlarged edition, Albin Michel, 1961.

The Immortal Pages of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Les Pages Immortelles de Jean-Jacques Rousseau), Buchet-Chastel, 1962.

Valmy, Éditions Sociales Internationales, 1938.

5. Political Writings

The Free Spirit (L’Esprit Libre), Albin Michel, 1953.

Fifteen Years of Struggle (Quinze Ans de Combat), Rieder, 1935.

Through Revolution, Peace (Par la Révolution, la Paix), Éditions Sociales Internationales, 1935.

How to Prevent War (Comment Empêcher la Guerre), Bureau d’Éditions, 1936.

Political, Social and Philosophical Writings (Textes Politiques, Sociaux et Philosophiques), Éditions Sociales, 1970.

6. Autobiographical Writings

The Inner Journey: Dream of a Life (Le Voyage Intérieur. Songe d’une Vie), enlarged edition, Albin Michel, 1959.

Memoirs and Journal Fragments (Mémoires et Fragments du Journal), Albin Michel, 1946.

From Jean-Christophe to Colas Breugnon (1912–1913), Éditions du Salon Carré, 1946.

The Cloister of Rue d’Ulm: Romain Rolland’s Journal at the École Normale Supérieure (1886–1889), Albin Michel, 1952.

Journal of the War Years (1914–1919), Albin Michel, 1952.

India: Journal 1915–1943, Albin Michel, 1960.

Journey to Moscow (June–July 1935), Albin Michel, 1992.

7. Correspondence

A. Cahiers Romain Rolland (Albin Michel)

Selected Letters to Malwida von Meysenbug, 1948.

Correspondence between Louis Gillet and Romain Rolland, 1949.

Richard Strauss and Romain Rolland: Correspondence and Journal Fragments, 1950.

Correspondence between Romain Rolland and Maxim Gorky (1916–1936), 1991.

The One and the Other II: Correspondence between Romain Rolland and Alphonse de Châteaubriant (1914–1944), 1996.

B. Other Correspondence

Letters from Romain Rolland to a Resistance Fighter, Élie Walach, Rodstein, 1947.

Jean-Christophe and Armel: Correspondence between Romain Rolland and Jean Bodin, Brochet, Lyon, 1955.

Romain Rolland – Lugné-Poe: Correspondence 1894–1901, L’Arche, 1957.

Guy Tosi, “D’Annunzio as Seen by Romain Rolland”, Annales du Centre Universitaire Méditerranéen, Nice, 1963.

GENERAL WORKS

  • Abraham, Pierre (and others), Romain Rolland, Neuchâtel, À la Baconnière, 1969.

  • Albertini, Jean, Introduction to Political, Social and Philosophical Texts by Romain Rolland, Éditions Sociales, 1970.

  • Arcos, René, Romain Rolland, Mercure de France, 1950.

  • Barrère, Jean-Bertrand, Romain Rolland by himself, Le Seuil, 1955.

  • Barrère, Jean-Bertrand, Romain Rolland, the soul and the art, Albin Michel, 1966.

  • Bonnerot, Jean, Romain Rolland. His work, Éditions du Carnet critique, 1921.

  • Chagny-Sève, Anne-Marie (ed.), Permanence and plurality of Romain Rolland, Proceedings of the Clamecy colloquium, September 22-24, 1994, General Council of Nièvre, 1995.

  • Cheval, René, Le Coq et l'Aigle, Berne, Lang, 1990.

  • Descotes, Maurice, Romain Rolland, Éditions du Temps présent, 1948.

  • Doisy, Marcel, Romain Rolland (1866-1944), Brussels, Éditions La Boétie, 1945.

  • Duchatelet, Bernard, The Genesis of Jean-Christophe by Romain Rolland, Minard, 1978.

  • Duchatelet, Bernard, Romain Rolland. Thought and Action, University of Brest, 1997.

  • Duchatelet, Bernard, Romain Rolland as in himself, Albin Michel, 2002.

  • Duret, Serge, Romain Rolland. Being and Harmony. Essay in spiritual biography, doctoral thesis, University of Brest, 1992.

  • Fisher, David, Romain Rolland and the Politics of Intellectual Engagement, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1988.

  • Francis, Richard, Romain Rolland, Oxford-New York, Berg, 1999.

  • Jeanneret, Yves, Les soleils meurent aussi. Un demi-siècle de réception critique de l'Å“uvre de Romain Rolland en France (1898-1944), Université de Paris III, reissue 1993.

  • Jouve, Pierre-Jean, Romain Rolland vivant, Ollendorff, 1920.

  • Melet, Bernard, The Eros of a Heroine, La Pensée universelle, 1976.

  • Motylova, Tamara, Romain Rolland, Moscow, Progress Publishers, 1976.

  • Nedeljkovic, Dragan, Romain Rolland-Stefan Zweig, Klincksieck, 1970.

  • Pérus, Jean, Romain Rolland-Maxime Gorki, Éditeurs Français Réunis, 1968.

  • Robichez, Jacques, Romain Rolland, Hatier, 1961.

  • Roos, Jacques, Studies in General and Comparative Literature, Ophrys, 1979.

  • Seippel, Paul, Romain Rolland. The man and his work, Ollendorff, 1913.

  • Sénéchal, Christian, Romain Rolland, Éditions de la Caravelle, 1933.

  • Sibnarayan, Ray, The Universality of Man. The Message of Romain Rolland, Proceedings of the New Delhi conference, January 15-17, 1990, New Delhi, Sahitya Akademi, 1992.

  • Sipriot, Pierre, Romain Rolland, Desclée de Brouwer, 1968.

  • Starr, William Thomas, Romain Rolland. One against all. A Biography, The Hague, Mouton, 1971.

  • Zweig, Stefan, Romain Rolland. Der Mann und das Werk, Frankfurt, Rütten und Loening, 1920-1921.

    • French translation by Odette Richez: Romain Rolland. His life, his work, Éditions Pittoresques, 1929.

    • Revised edition with a preface by Serge Niemetz, Belfond, 2000.

CRITICAL WORKS

  • Liber Amicorum Romain Rolland, Zurich, Rotapfel Verlag, 1926.

  • Europe, No. 38, February 1926.

  • “Romain Rolland’s 70th anniversary”, Commune, no. 31, March 1936.

  • Les Cahiers du Nord, February 1945.

  • Homage to Romain Rolland, Geneva-Annemasse, Éditions du Mont-Blanc, n.d. [1945].

  • Romain Rolland and Belgium, Brussels, At the sign of the Fishing Cat, 1950.

  • “Homage to Romain Rolland”, Le Disque vert, no. 6, March-April 1954.

  • “Romain Rolland”, Europe, n° 109-110, 1955.

  • “Romain Rolland among us”, Les Lettres françaises, no. 550, January-February 1955.

  • “Romain Rolland”, Europe, no. 439-440, November-December 1965.

  • “Centenary of the birth of Romain Rolland”, Feuillets de l’Amitié Péguy, no. 119, January 1966.

  • “Romain Rolland”, Études de Lettres, October-December 1966.

  • “Romain Rolland”, Livres de France, December 1966.

  • Romain Rolland. His life, his work, 1866-1944, exhibition catalogue at the Archives of France, 1966.

  • Romain Rolland, Weltbürger zwischen Frankreich und Deutschland, Munich, Süddeutscher Verlag, 1967.

  • Catalogue of the Romain Rolland Exhibition (Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya), August-September 1968.

  • “Romain Rolland”, Études de lettres, July-September 1976.

  • “Romain Rolland”, Revue d’Histoire littéraire de la France, November-December 1976.

  • Romain Rolland questions our time, catalogue of the Clamecy and Vézelay exhibition, July-October 1994, General Council of Yonne.

  • “Fiftieth anniversary of the death of Romain Rolland”, Unité (Romain Rolland Institute, Kyoto), no. 22, March 1995.

SPECIFIC WORKS

  • Albert, Charles, Below the Battle. Romain Rolland and his disciples, Librairie Marcel Rivière, 1916.

  • Basquin, Claire, Romain Rolland and the Geneva Prisoners' Agency (1914-1916), thesis for the diploma of archivist-paleographer, École des Chartes, 1999.

  • Baudouin, Charles, Romain slandered. Response to a defamation and simple analysis of a method of collective suggestion, Cahiers du Carmel, 1918.

  • Cheval, René, Romain Rolland, Germany and the war, PUF, 1963.

  • Debran, Isabelle, Monsieur Romain Rolland initiator of defeatism, introduction by Diodore, Henri Jarrys, 1918.

  • Fisher, David James, Romain Rolland and the Politics of Intellectual Engagement, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1988; reissued in 2004.

  • Grappin, Pierre, Le Bund Neues Vaterland (1914-1916). Ses rapports avec Romain Rolland, Bibliothèque de la Société des Études Germaniques, 1952.

  • Guilbeaux, Henri, For Romain Rolland, J.-H. Jeheber (Geneva), 1915.

  • Jouve, Pierre-Jean, Romain Rolland vivant, Ollendorff, 1920.

  • Kempf, Marcelle, Romain Rolland and Germany, Nouvelles Éditions Debresse, 1962.

  • Loyson, Paul-Hyacinthe, Are you neutral in the face of crime? By a logical pacifist, with a letter from Émile Verhaeren, Berger-Levrault, 1916.

  • Massis, Henri, Romain Rolland against France, Floury, 1915.

  • Massis, Henri, Judgments II, Librairie Plon, 1924.

  • Renaitour, J.-M., Servant, S. and Loyson, P.-H., Above or in the heart of the fray? A republican polemic, Edition of the Review L'Essor, 1916.

  • Romain Rolland, The pacifists, their detractors: love and hate during the Great War, Scientific and Artistic Society of Clamecy, François-Mitterrand Media Library of Clamecy, catalogue of the exhibition presented in Vézelay on October 4 and 5, 2008 on the occasion of the International Romain Rolland Days, Rolland Studies, no. 23, 2010.

  • Romain Rolland, a work of peace, texts collected and presented by Bernard Duchatelet, Publications de la Sorbonne, 2010.

  • Vogt, William, On the subject of the least Romain des Rollands furieux. A riposte to Above the Battle and to its eulogists of yesteryear and today, Hôtel du Pavillon, 1916.

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