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"Colas Breugnon" is a charming romance of life in Burgundy three hundred years ago. It is an "autobiographical" novel, the story being told in the first person by Colas, who reviews his fifty years of life, and describes all its joys and sorrows.
In this work, written during World War I, Rolland contrasts the destructive hatred with the joy of life, humor, and solidarity. Kola is a kind of Burgundian Falstaff or Rabelais' Gargantua – rough but noble, earthly but deeply humane.
The Bloody Arena (1908) is a naturalistic novel about the rise and fall of bullfighter Juan Gallardo. A poor young man becomes a famous matador, but is destroyed by love, vice, fear, and tragedies in the arena – a critique of Spanish bullfighting and soci
