Romain Rolland

Synopsis

Romain rolland, by stephan zweig, is a classic literary biography of the great french dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic. Romain rolland (29 january 1866 – 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". Rolland was born in clamecy, nièvre into a family that had both wealthy townspeople and farmers in its lineage.