Whose Biography, also known as Biography of the Giant, was a famous French critical realist writer, musician, novelist, playwright and social activist from the end of 65438 to the beginning of the 20th century. Written by Roland, he collected three biographies of heroes: Beethoven, Tolstoy and Michelangelo.

The three men in Biography, although one is a musician, one is a sculptor and one is a novelist, have their own gardens. All three biographies focus on recording great geniuses. On the journey of life, they devoted their lives to seeking truth and justice and created immortal masterpieces that can express truth, goodness and beauty.

Creation period

"Who is Right and Who is Wrong" was written at the beginning of the 20th century, which had a wide influence at that time and later generations. In these three biographies, romain rolland didn't stick to the trivial textual research of the master's life, nor did he trace back their creative process in general. Instead, we firmly grasp the similarities between these three artists and their respective fields, and strive to describe their long-term suffering and pursuit of truth, goodness and beauty. Romain rolland called them "heroes" and wrote with touching pen and ink their lofty courage to fight against fate and great feelings to bear the suffering of all mankind, which can be said to be another "heroic symphony" of ours.

Beethoven's great love

Brief introduction of Beethoven's life: Beethoven was born in a poor family. His father is an opera singer, rude and alcoholic, and his mother is a maid. Beethoven himself was ugly, had a hard life in his childhood and adolescence, and was often scolded by his father. Beethoven1/Kloc-0 joined the theater band at the age of/0/,and became a great organist at the age of 13. /kloc-at the age of 0/7, he lost his mother, and he was responsible for the education of his two brothers alone.

1792 65438+ Beethoven left his hometown Bonn in February and went to Vienna, the city of music. Soon, pain knocked on the door of his life. Since 1796, Beethoven's ears have been ringing day and night, and his hearing has been declining. At first, he kept this terrible secret alone. 180 1 year, he fell in love with a girl named Julietta, but because of her disability (he was deaf at this time) and Julietta's selfishness and vanity, she married an earl two years later. The double torture of body and spirit is embodied in his fantasy sonata.

1806 In May, Beethoven got engaged to Miss Brunswick, and the beauty of love produced a series of great works. Unfortunately, love abandoned him again, and his fiancee married someone else. However, Beethoven was in the heyday of his creation at this time, and he was carefree about everything. He attracted the attention of the world, and after his glory came the most tragic period: financial distress, the death of relatives and friends, deafness, and communication with people only on paper. Facing the hardships of life, it seems that nothing can make Beethoven yield. He reversed the frivolous atmosphere in Vienna at that time with his own creative style.

1827 On March 26th, Beethoven took his last breath on a snowy day.

Biography of Michelangelo

The biography of Michelangelo: This biography is divided into two parts, the first part is "fighting", the second part is "abandoning" and

The ending is "death". 1475 On March 6th, Michelangelo was born in Capulli Sai, Santino, where his father was a judge. His mother died when he was six years old, and Michelangelo was adopted by the wife of a stonemason. At the age of thirteen, he entered the studio of domenico Girandayo. It is said that his excellent grades make teachers jealous. A year later, they broke up and Michelangelo transferred to a sculpture school. Soon, due to the conflict of religious beliefs, he left there and went to Venice, Rome and other famous cities, and the level of sculpture continued to improve.

1505 In March, Michelangelo was recruited by Pope Julius II to build a mausoleum for him. Soon, he was invited to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. In the following years, he was sent by successive popes to create works that he was not satisfied with with with pain. 1527 Michelangelo was involved in the whirlpool of a revolution and almost died. After the revolution, Pope Clemente found him out of his hiding place again, and Michelangelo had to work for the people he resisted again. Pope Clemente died in September 1537, and Michelangelo thought he could do his own thing quietly from now on. But as soon as he arrived in Rome, he was caught by his new owner, Paul III. It seems that fate doomed him to work for others only in endless interference.

1February 564 12, Michelangelo stood all day, writing a eulogy for Christ. 14 began to have a fever. 18 at 5 pm, this outstanding sculptor and painter finally passed away forever.

Leo Tolstoy

Biography of Tolstoy: Tolstoy lost his mother at the age of two and his father at the age of nine. As a teenager, Tolstoy was not only troubled by his own thoughts, but also despaired of his ugly appearance.

185 1 year, Tolstoy came to the Caucasus, and the clear environment surrounded by mountains made his chaotic brain wake up. The following year, he created excellent works such as Childhood, Teenager, Youth and Morning of a Landlord. During the Russian-Turkish War, Tolstoy visited the battlefield personally and was often in danger. Under such circumstances, he still wrote such an exciting work as Chronicle of Sevastopol. Tolstoy in this period was full and happy.

Tolstoy got married in 1862, and his happy family life gave him enough time and energy to create masterpieces that shocked the whole novel circle in19th century: War and Peace and Anna karenin. However, Tolstoy is distressed: he has status and wealth, but he is often ashamed of his rich life; He sympathizes with the lower classes and lacks confidence in them. So he was tired of his own life, determined to break with his own society, and could not get people's support. Mentally, he has always been lonely. At the age of eighty-two, he chose to run away and died in a small railway station.

How heavy is the air around us. The boss's Europa is unconscious in an atmosphere of heavy turbidity and corruption. Vulgar materialism suppresses ideas and hinders the actions of the government and individuals. Society suffocated in smart and humble selfishness. Humans can't breathe. -Open the window! Let the free air come back! Take a breath of hero.

The writing purpose of Whose Biography is lofty, creating the sun in the spiritual world, breathing the breath of heroes, and making people get spiritual support in the painful and disappointing reality. Who's Who is full of intense passion. Every reader who reads Who's Who will first strongly feel the irresistible enthusiasm in the works and be heartbroken by Roland's inspiring language.

Overall structure

From the structural point of view, Beethoven's biography, Michelangelo's biography and Tolstoy's biography seem to be independent and irrelevant, but in fact they are internally consistent. This consistency stems not only from the spiritual similarity of the three masters, but also from another important thought of Roland, namely, the European unity thought and the humanitarian spirit.

Whose Biography is a fascinating biography. The author devoted all his enthusiasm to successfully expose readers to the three masters in the biography and share their pains and failures. Also share their sincerity and success.

The most prominent place in Whose Biography is that it shows the physical and mental sufferings of the biographies in many aspects, their unremitting struggle with infinite suffering, and their passion for life that erupted in the struggle. Throughout the three biographies, the protagonists in Roland's novels have the same fate schema and trend: long-term suffering, torrent-like vitality, artistic creation embodying the will of life and the pursuit of exchanging pain for joy.

Roman Roland called these three great geniuses' heroes'. His view of hero is not the hero usually praised. The heroes Roman Roland refers to are just' loyal servants of mankind', because they have great character, and they are great because they can serve the public wholeheartedly. Roland himself said: "The hero I am talking about is not a person dominated by ideas or power; But a man with a great heart. In order to highlight the essence of heroes, Roland changed the writing style of conventional biographies, abandoned the general knowledge introduction of biographies, concentrated on grasping the highly unified spiritual character of characters, and projected his passion for heroes.

Beethoven, Michelangelo, Tolstoy, these people who were honored as heroes by Roman Roland, were either tortured by illness, or suffered, or because of inner confusion and contradiction, or the superposition of the three, and their deep distress almost choked their breath and destroyed their reason. They can persist in the arduous course because of their love and confidence in mankind. Beethoven's music of "taking pain as pleasure"; Michelangelo dedicated his life's hard work to a masterpiece that shocked the soul; Tolstoy always cared about the greatness and insignificance of thousands of creatures, so as to spread the seeds of love and the ideal of tolerance.