The Forerunners is a book written by Romain Rolland which is a sequel to Above the Battle. It is a collection of articles that were written and published in Switzerland between 1915 and 1919. The book is titled "The Forerunners" as it relates to the few individuals who were able to keep their thoughts free, and their international faith inviolate...More
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". He was a leading supporter of Joseph Stalin in France and is also noted for his correspondence with and influence on Sigmund Freud.
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". He was a leading supporter of Joseph Stalin in France and is also noted for his correspondence with and influence on Sigmund Freud.
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The Forerunners is a book written by Romain Rolland which is a sequel to Above the Battle. It is a collection of articles that were written and published in Switzerland between 1915 and 1919. The book is titled "The Forerunners" as it relates to the few individuals who were able to keep their thoughts free, and their international faith inviolate during the tempest of war and universal reaction. The book is a tribute to the dauntless few who were flouted, reviled, threatened, found guilty and imprisoned for standing for freedom. The book features essays on personalities such as Bertrand Russell, E. D. Morel, Maxim Gorki, G. F. Nicolai, Auguste Forel, Andreas Latzko, Henri Barbusse, Stefan Zweig and many more. The book is not complete and the most important materials at the author's disposal, as to scope and permanent value, are a register made day by day of the letters, the confidences, the moral confessions, which the author received throughout these years from the free spirits and the persecuted of all nations.
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