Romain Rolland

The outstanding French writer, public figure, music expert, great thinker-humanist of the XX century, Nobel prize laureate in literature Romain Rolland (1866–1944) has a great art heritage. He wouldn’t have had such a global reputation as a champion of peace and a humanist, if a lot of people in different countries had not known and had not liked his books.

The anniversary book exhibition "The Enchanted soul" has about 100 publications, including the collected works, selected works, novels, stories, plays, articles, letters of Romain Rolland, literature about his life and work.

The exhibited works are presented by editions of different years in Belarusian, Russian, Ukrainian, French, German and Chinese.

The famous novels of Rolland: a ten-volume Jean-Christophe (1956), which brought him a worldwide fame and was translated into many languages, The Enchanted Soul (1959), Colas Breugnon (various years of publication in French, Belarusian and Russian languages); series of books about the great artists: Life of Beethoven (1975), Life of Michelangelo (2001), Life of Tolstoy (1923), Beethoven. Great Creative Epochs (1957) are among them. Books with popular works of the writer: Collected Works in nine volumes (1983), a collection of essays in Chinese Fu Lei Quanji (2002), Selected Works (1998), The Lives of Great People (1993); playbook Tragedy of Faith (1922), Theatre of the Revolution (1940), The Fourteenth of July. Danton. Robespierres (1989); plays Liluli (1922), Love and Death (1925), The Time Will Come (1926); novel Pierre et Luce (1923); a collection of military articles To the Defense of the New World (1932); Rolland’s work The Life of Ramakrishna. The life of Vivekananda. Vivekananda Universal Gospel (2002); works: Musical and Historical Heritage (1986); collections Articles and Letters (1985), M. Gorky and R. Rolland. Correspondence (1995) are exhibited.

The book by V. Sedykh Russian Muses of the Great French (1997) is of particular interest, where the author, who knew the heroines of his story, tells the story of their extraordinary lives, including the fate of the wife of Romain Rolland, Maria Pavlovna.

The exhibition will be interesting to a wide audience.

The exhibition is located on the 3rd floor of the circular corridor, and will run from January 5 to March 29, 2016.

Phones: (+375 17) 293 23 86, 293 29 80.