Pages From The Goncourt Journal
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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Few documents capture the glittering and scandalous heart of nineteenth-century Parisian literary life quite like the diary kept by Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, a remarkable chronicle that recorded the gossip, genius, and social rituals of an era defined by Flaubert, Zola, and Turgenev. This celebrated selection, edited, translated, and introduced by the distinguished scholar Robert Baldick, presents the most vivid and revealing passages from a journal that spans decades of French cultural history, offering intimate portraits of the great writers, artists, and intellectuals who gathered in the Goncourt salon. Baldick's authoritative editorial hand transforms what might otherwise be a sprawling private document into a compelling and cohesive narrative, illuminating the brothers' shared aesthetic obsessions, their acerbic wit, and their unflinching eye for human detail. The Goncourts pioneered a style of realist prose that influenced an entire generation of French writers, and their journal remains an indispensable primary source for anyone serious about the Second Empire and the Belle Époque. Rich with malice, tenderness, and precision, this edition invites the reader to ask: what other secrets did the Goncourts choose to keep?
Author: Robert Baldick
Format: Paperback
Published: 1978, Oxford University Press
Genre: Essays
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few documents capture the glittering and scandalous heart of nineteenth-century Parisian literary life quite like the diary kept by Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, a remarkable chronicle that recorded the gossip, genius, and social rituals of an era defined by Flaubert, Zola, and Turgenev. This celebrated selection, edited, translated, and introduced by the distinguished scholar Robert Baldick, presents the most vivid and revealing passages from a journal that spans decades of French cultural history, offering intimate portraits of the great writers, artists, and intellectuals who gathered in the Goncourt salon. Baldick's authoritative editorial hand transforms what might otherwise be a sprawling private document into a compelling and cohesive narrative, illuminating the brothers' shared aesthetic obsessions, their acerbic wit, and their unflinching eye for human detail. The Goncourts pioneered a style of realist prose that influenced an entire generation of French writers, and their journal remains an indispensable primary source for anyone serious about the Second Empire and the Belle Époque. Rich with malice, tenderness, and precision, this edition invites the reader to ask: what other secrets did the Goncourts choose to keep?