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Pages from the Goncourt Journals

By: Edmond de Goncourt,Jules de Goncourt

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Pages from the Goncourt Journals

By: Edmond de Goncourt,Jules de Goncourt

No evocation of Parisian life in the second half of the nineteenth century can match that found in the journals of the brothers Goncourt The journal of the brothers Edmond and Jules de Goncourt is one of the masterpieces of nineteenth-century French literature, a work that in its richness of color, variety, and seemingly casual perfection bears comparison with the great paintings of their friends and contemporaries the Impressionists. Born nearly ten years apart into a French aristocratic family, the two brothers formed an extraordinarily productive and enduring literary partnership, collaborating on novels, criticism, and plays that pioneered the new aesthetic of naturalism. But the brothers’ talents found their most memorable outlet in their journal, which is at once a chronicle of an era, an intimate glimpse into their lives, and the purest expression of a nascent modern sensibility preoccupied with sex and art, celebrity and self-exposure. The Goncourts visit slums, brothels, balls, department stores, and imperial receptions; they argue over art and politics and trade merciless gossip with and about Hugo, Baudelaire, Degas, Flaubert, Zola, Rodin, and many others. And in 1871, Edmond maintains a vigil as his brother dies a slow and agonizing death from syphilis, recording every detail in the journal that he would continue to maintain alone for another two decades.

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New York Review of Books

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159017190X

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9781590171905

Pages from the Goncourt Journals

By: Edmond de Goncourt,Jules de Goncourt

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Renee Mauperin

By: Edmond De Goncourt

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Renee Mauperin

By: Edmond De Goncourt

A novel involving the upbringing of a middle-class girl.

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410

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Wildside Press LLC

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1434476103

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9781434476104

Utamaro

By: Edmond de Goncourt

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Utamaro

By: Edmond de Goncourt

If sensuality had a name, it would be without doubt Utamaro. Delicately underlining the Garden of Pleasures that once constituted Edo, Utamaro, by the richness of his fabrics, the swan-like necks of the women, the mysterious looks, evokes in a few lines the sensual pleasure of the Orient. If some scenes discreetly betray lovers’ games, a great number of his shungas recall that love in Japan is first and foremost erotic.

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256

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Parkstone International

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1780429282

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9781780429281

Journal

By: Edmond et Jules de Goncourt

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Journal

By: Edmond et Jules de Goncourt

Les frères Goncourt ont laissé à la postérité deux monuments, qui ont quelque peu éclipsé leurs romans : le prix littéraire qui porte leur nom, et leur Journal. Celui-ci commence le 2 décembre 1851, jour du coup d’État de Napoléon III, et s’achève à la mort d’Edmond, en 1896. C’est une inestimable mine d’informations sur la vie littéraire, artistique et politique du XIXe siècle. Habités par un idéal de vérité et de transparence, ils s’y montrent d’une lucidité sans concession, jusqu’à en être fielleux. Ils ne cessent d’exposer leurs contemporains, révélant les secrets, moquant les ridicules. Leur Journal est comme un réseau social avant l’heure. Brouillant la frontière du dicible et de l’indicible, ils racontent le sexe, la mort, la violence du temps. Secrétaires de leurs perceptions, sensations, humeurs – et de celles des autres –, ils redéfinissent la notion d’intimité. Ce tombeau littéraire que les deux frères, hantés par la mort, ont édifié pour leur gloire est aussi le mémorial de leurs contemporains. Il est temps de redécouvrir ces témoins capitaux que furent les Goncourt.

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444

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Editions Gallimard

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2072717582

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9782072717581

The Woman of the Eighteenth Century

Her Life, from Birth to Death, Her Love and Her Philosophy in the Worlds of Salon, Shop and Street

By: Edmond de Goncourt,Jules de Goncourt

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The Woman of the Eighteenth Century

Her Life, from Birth to Death, Her Love and Her Philosophy in the Worlds of Salon, Shop and Street

By: Edmond de Goncourt,Jules de Goncourt

This translation of the French Femme au dix-huitiéme siécle from 1862, first published in English in 1928, traces the life of the Eighteenth Century woman in an historical account. Through discussion of evidence from paintings and memoirs, the book draws an intimate lifelike account of what lay behind these images for women in France of this time. The Goncourt brothers wrote several social histories but were also art critics and novelists. Here they offer portraits of upper, middle and working class women in France. This is one of the earliest accounts of life for women in this period.

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384

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Routledge

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1136240020

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9781136240027

Hokusai

By: Edmond de Goncourt

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Hokusai

By: Edmond de Goncourt

Without a doubt, Katsushika Hokusai is the most famous Japanese artist since the middle of the nineteenth century whose art is known to the Western world. Reflecting the artistic expression of an isolated civilisation, the works of Hokusai - one of the first Japanese artists to emerge in Europe - greatly influenced the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters, such as Vincent van Gogh. Considered during his life as a living Ukiyo-e master, Hokusai fascinates us with the variety and the significance of his work, which spanned almost ninety years and is presented here in all its breadth and diversity.

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421

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Parkstone International

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1783107715

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9781783107711

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Pages from the Goncourt Journals

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