1890年开始酝酿、规划，1903年起笔，1912年落笔。可以说，罗曼–罗兰创作《约翰–克里斯朵夫》，构思是——十三载思一事，写作是——十年磨一剑。
法国著名批判现实主义作家、音乐史学家罗曼–罗兰的长河式小说《约翰–克里斯朵夫》就是这样一部思路横亘20年、撰写耗费10年的鸿篇巨著。这部20世纪*伟大的小说之一，不但让罗兰实现了心中的夙愿——创造一种用文字谱写乐章的新型艺术，而且还帮助他荣获了1913年度法兰西学院文学奖和1915年诺贝尔文学奖。
CONTENTS
LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP / 1
THE BURNING BUSH / 186
THE NEW DAWN / 396
Romain Rolland (29 January 1866-30 December 1944) ，was a French dramatist， novelist， essayist， art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 “as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings”
Jean-Christophe (1904 1912) is the novel in ten volumes by for which Romain Rolland received the Prix Femina in 1905 the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915.
The first four volumes are sometimes grouped as
Jean-Christophe， the next three as Jean-Christophe à Paris， and the last three as La fin du voyage (“Journey’s End”).
1. L’Aube (“Dawn”， 1904)
2. Le Matin (“Morning”， 1904)
3. L’Adolescent (“Youth”， 1904)
4. La Révolte (“Revolt”， 1905)
5. La Foire sur la place (“The Marketplace”， 1908)
6. Antoinette (1908)
7. Dans la maison (“The House”， 1908)
8. Les Amies (“Love and Friendship”， 1910)
9. Le Buisson ardent (“The Burning Bush”， 1911)
10. La Nouvelle Journée (“The New Dawn”， 1912)
The English translations appeared between 1911 and 1913.
