Clerambault by Romain Rolland
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Title: Clerambault The Story Of An Independent Spirit During The War
Author: Rolland, Romain
Release Date: January 30, 2004 [EBook #10868]
Language: English
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CLERAMBAULT
THE STORY OF AN INDEPENDENT SPIRIT DURING THE WAR
BY
ROMAIN ROLLAND
TRANSLATED BY
KATHERINE MILLER
1921
TO THE READER
This book is not a novel, but rather the confession of a free spirit telling of its mistakes, its sufferings and its struggles from the midst of the tempest; and it is in no sense an autobiography either. Some day I may wish to write of myself, and I will then speak without any disguise or feigned name. Though it is true that I have lent some ideas to my hero, his individuality, his character and the circumstances of his life are all his own; and I have tried to give a picture of the inward labyrinth where a weak spirit wanders, feeling its way, uncertain, sensitive and impressionable, but sincere and ardent in the cause of truth.
Some chapters of the book have a family likeness to the meditations of our old French moralists and the stoical essays of the end of the XVIth century. At a time resembling our own but even exce