"Jean-Christophe" by Romain Rolland is a novel in ten volumes published between 1904 and 1912. The work tells the story of Jean-Christophe Krafft, a German musical genius living in France, whose life unfolds from birth to death. Through great hardships and spiritual struggles, he balances his artistic pride with survival, faces injustice, flees authority multiple times, and searches for peace across Europe. This sweeping narrative incorporates views on music, society, and understanding between nations. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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