Pages from the Goncourt Journals
by Edmond and Jules de Goncourt
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 159017190X
- ISBN 13
- 9781590171905
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About This Item
Trade Paperback 434 pages. Condition Very Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Reprint edition 2006. Lovely illustrated wraps shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
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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- Seller
- River House Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 656790
- Title
- Pages from the Goncourt Journals
- Author
- Edmond and Jules de Goncourt
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 159017190X
- ISBN 13
- 9781590171905
- Publisher
- New York Review Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2006
- Pages
- 434
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