Charles Péguy·Cahiers de la Quinzaine

A work assembled across cahiers

Jean-Christophe

Romain Rolland

1904–1912

Romain Rolland’s roman-fleuve, ten volumes long, ran in the Cahiers de la Quinzaine from 1904 to 1912. Following the German-born composer Jean-Christophe Krafft from childhood in a Rhenish town to old age in Paris and Switzerland, the novel braids music, friendship, and European cultural politics into a single arc. It was the Cahiers’ commercial flagship and won Rolland the Nobel Prize in 1915. The installments here are reprinted in their original Quinzaine sequence.

Read in order

17 installments as originally published in the cahiers.

  1. Part 1

    I. L'aube

    V-9 · 1904-02-05

    French · English

  2. Part 2

    II. Le matin

    V-10 · 1904-02-20

    French · English

  3. Part 3

    III. L'adolescent

    VI-8 · 1905-01-20

    French · English

  4. Part 4

    IV. La révolte. 1. Sables mouvants

    VIII-4 · 1906-11-20

    French · English

  5. Part 5

    IV. La révolte. 2. L'enlisement

    VIII-6 · 1906-12-20

    French · English

  6. Part 6

    IV. La révolte. 3. La délivrance

    VIII-9 · 1907-02-05

    French · English

  7. Part 7

    À Paris. I. La foire sur la Place. 1

    IX-13 · 1908-04-05

    French · English

  8. Part 8

    À Paris. I. La foire sur la Place. 2

    IX-14 · 1907-12-15

    French · English

  9. Part 9

    À Paris. Antoinette

    IX-15 · 1908-05-05

    French · English

  10. Part 10

    À Paris. II. Dans la maison. 1

    X-9 · 1909-02-05

    French · English

  11. Part 11

    À Paris. II. Dans la maison. 2

    X-10 · 1909-02-20

    French · English

  12. Part 12

    III. La fin du voyage. I. Les amies. 1

    XI-7 · 1910-01-05

    French · English

  13. Part 13

    III. La fin du voyage. I. Les amies. 2

    XI-8 · 1910-01-20

    French · English

  14. Part 14

    Le buisson ardent. 1

    XIII-5 · 1911-12-05

    French · English

  15. Part 15

    Le buisson ardent. 2

    XIII-6 · 1911-12-20

    French · English

  16. Part 16

    La nouvelle journée. 1

    XIV-2 · 1912-10-20

    French · English

  17. Part 17

    La nouvelle journée. 2

    XIV-3 · 1912-11-05

    French · English