Pierre and Luce (Annotated)

Romain Rolland's Pierre and Luce is a lyrical antiwar novella set in Paris during the final phase of the First World War. Centered on the brief, fragile love between Pierre, a young bourgeois student awaiting conscription, and Luce, an artist's daughter earning her living by painting copies, the work opposes private tenderness to public catastrophe. Its style is intimate, symbolic, and musical, cl...