法国作家普鲁斯特在其著名的文学批评著作《驳圣伯夫》中这样评价《约翰·克利斯朵夫》:“对这样的人来说,在一定的情况下,不陷入浅薄与谎言是不可能的,因为他选择了一个难于相处的天才作为作品的主人公,他说的极其平庸的俏皮话竟然出自一个天才人物之口听来实在令人气愤不平。我说的就是约翰·克利斯朵夫,不幸,约翰·克利斯朵夫说话刚刚停止,罗曼·罗兰先生 The French writer Proust in his famous literary criticism, ”Discipline Saint-Boeuf“ comments on ”John Krisdorff“ as follows: ”For such people, under certain circumstances, they do not fall into shallow and Lying is impossible because he chooses a difficult genius as the protagonist of the work and what he says is extremely mediocre and playful even comes out of the mouth of a gifted person. It sounds very outrageous to say that I’m talking about John Kris Forrest, unfortunately, John Krisdorff has just stopped speaking, Mr. Roman Roland