Biography of Beethoven, Michelangelo and Tolstoy written by French writer romain rolland. The three authors of this book are all extremely talented great men in human history. Their lives are rich and colorful, and their works are profound and profound, which have influenced generations. Romain rolland firmly grasped the similarities of these three artists in their respective fields, and, without changing their original intentions, made great efforts to depict their mental journey through hardships, highlighting their lofty personality, fraternity and broad mind, and wrote a "heroic symphony" for us.
Romain rolland (1866- 1944) is a French writer in the 20th century, a Nobel Prize in Literature winner in 19 15, and a world-famous pacifist. His mother is a devout religious believer and loves music very much, which has a far-reaching impact on Roland's love of music and his reverence for Beethoven in the future. 1880, the Roland family moved to Paris from Clancy, a city in central France. From 65438 to 0886, he was admitted to the prestigious Paris Normal School, during which he read a lot of literary and historical works. Roland holds lofty social ideals and enthusiasm, but the reality around him makes him depressed and confused, so he gave it to the great Russian writer Lev? Tolstoy wrote letters seeking answers to life. Tolstoy enthusiastically wrote a reply of 20 to 30 pages, answered various questions in detail, and pointed out in a highly concise way: "Everything that unites people is good and beautiful; Everything that divides people is evil and ugly. " Tolstoy's "kindness" words and deeds had an indelible impact on Roland's life.
The writing purpose of Whose Biography is lofty, creating the sun in the spiritual world, breathing the breath of heroes, and making people get spiritual support in the painful and disappointing reality. Who's Who is full of intense passion. Every reader who reads Who's Who will first strongly feel the irresistible enthusiasm in the works and be heartbroken by Roland's inspiring language.
From the structural point of view, Beethoven's biography, Michelangelo's biography and Tolstoy's biography seem to be independent and irrelevant, but in fact they are internally consistent. This consistency stems not only from the spiritual similarity of the three masters, but also from another important thought of Roland, namely, the European unity thought and the humanitarian spirit.
Whose Biography is a fascinating biography. The author devoted all his enthusiasm to successfully expose readers to the three masters in the biography and share their pains and failures. Also share their sincerity and success.
The most prominent place in Whose Biography is that it shows the physical and mental sufferings of the biographies in many aspects, their unremitting struggle with infinite suffering, and their passion for life that erupted in the struggle. Throughout the three biographies, the protagonists in Roland's novels have the same fate schema and trend: long-term suffering, torrent-like vitality, artistic creation embodying the will of life and the pursuit of exchanging pain for joy.
Roman Roland called these three great geniuses' heroes'. His view of hero is not the hero usually praised. Roman? The heroes Roland refers to have become "loyal servants of mankind" because of their great character. They are great because they can serve the public wholeheartedly. Roland himself said: "The hero I am talking about is not a person dominated by ideas or power; But a man with a great heart. In order to highlight the essence of heroes, Roland changed the writing style of conventional biographies, abandoned the general knowledge introduction of biographies, concentrated on grasping the highly unified spiritual character of characters, and projected his passion for heroes.
Beethoven, Michelangelo, Tolstoy, these people who were honored as heroes by Roman Roland, were either tortured by illness, or suffered, or because of inner confusion and contradiction, or the superposition of the three, and their deep distress almost choked their breath and destroyed their reason. They can persist in the arduous course because of their love and confidence in mankind. Beethoven's music of "taking pain as pleasure"; Michelangelo dedicated his life's hard work to a masterpiece that shocked the soul; Tolstoy always cared about the greatness and insignificance of thousands of creatures, so as to spread the seeds of love and the ideal of tolerance.