Troubadour

Résumé : Troubadour is the intimate human record of an artist's life in America. Opening with his birth in the heart of New York, this autobiography in the form of a novel carries the reader through a succession of events as romantic as the adventures of a Don Quixote. Poverty, ideals, dreams, defeats, achievements, crowd the canvas in a constant kaleidoscope, while people come and go in a dramatic series of contacts. Some of these characters are prominent in public life, others are famous poets, novelists, playwrights, painters, musicians, others are unknowns of to-day who are yet to be recognized, and others the obscure people who will always remain obscure. Told with the utmost detachment, the narrative treats the author himself as one of the characters, and in the gradual development of this central figure, tragedy and comedy, fantasy and realism, philosophy and irony, interplay like so many instruments. The greatest role of all is played by love-love of self, of woman, of friends, of strangers, of the race, of the soil, of beauty-and even of enemies.