Before Rolland had really “found himself” in literature, the Dreyfus case racked his sensitive soul. In almost all his later writings there are references, direct or implied, to this “welter of feeling” which divided families and shattered friendships. At the time of the trial he wrote, “He who can see injustice without trying to combat it, is neither entirely an artist nor entirely a man.”[104] He wrote a dramatic parable, _Les Loups_ (_Wolves_) under the pseudonym of “Saint Just,” in which he lifted “the problem from the realm of time into that of the eternal.” As the political strife became more personal and bitter, Rolland retired from public attention and devoted himself to writing lives of artists like _Michael Angelo_ and _Millet_ and musicians. He contributed the first chapters of _Jean-Christophe_ to the literary magazine, _Cahiers de la Quinzaine_, known to students _only_ for many years. In two small rooms on the fifth floor of a Parisian house, above the boulevard Montparnasse, Rolland wrote and read, seeing a few friends, taking walks, and playing the piano for recreation. Outwardly, he was serene; inwardly, he was seething with indignation at the falsities and hypocrisy of life, at the disdain shown for spiritual values, at “the world dying of asphyxia in its prudent and vile egoism,” as he expressed it in _Jean-Christophe_. Slowly, without any aids of publicity, the real value of _Jean-Christophe_ became apparent to critics and discriminating readers, as the last volumes appeared in the magazine. German journalists called attention to its unique merits. Paul Seippel, the Swiss writer, related the life and earlier work of Rolland. In June, 1913, Rolland was given the Grand Prix of the French Academy. Translation of _Jean-Christophe_ was made into English by Gilbert Cannan and critics awakened. The same year Rolland republished some of the plays written in his student days, under the title, _Les tragedies de la foi_; by examples of such heroes as “Saint Louis” and “Aërt,” he would inspire the people of the twentieth century to a new idealism. His play, _Wolves_, has been staged in Yiddish in New York, has been translated into English by Barrett H. Clark, and has been performed at the University of Minnesota.