Author: Katherine Ashley
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004490329
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Edmond de Goncourt’s four solo novels are not simply extensions of the Goncourt brothers’ joint project, but attempts to deviate from the Naturalism with which their name had come to be associated. By analysing paratexts, the relationship between documentation and fiction, as well as plot devices and themes, this study links the evolution of Goncourt’s fiction to wider literary debates surrounding Naturalism, Decadence and the renewal of the novel in fin de siècle France. In bringing Goncourt’s writings to an English-speaking public, it will be of interest to students and scholars of the literary history of late-nineteenth-century France.
Edmond de Goncourt and the Novel
Author: Katherine Ashley
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004490329
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Edmond de Goncourt’s four solo novels are not simply extensions of the Goncourt brothers’ joint project, but attempts to deviate from the Naturalism with which their name had come to be associated. By analysing paratexts, the relationship between documentation and fiction, as well as plot devices and themes, this study links the evolution of Goncourt’s fiction to wider literary debates surrounding Naturalism, Decadence and the renewal of the novel in fin de siècle France. In bringing Goncourt’s writings to an English-speaking public, it will be of interest to students and scholars of the literary history of late-nineteenth-century France.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004490329
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Edmond de Goncourt’s four solo novels are not simply extensions of the Goncourt brothers’ joint project, but attempts to deviate from the Naturalism with which their name had come to be associated. By analysing paratexts, the relationship between documentation and fiction, as well as plot devices and themes, this study links the evolution of Goncourt’s fiction to wider literary debates surrounding Naturalism, Decadence and the renewal of the novel in fin de siècle France. In bringing Goncourt’s writings to an English-speaking public, it will be of interest to students and scholars of the literary history of late-nineteenth-century France.
Selections from Edmond and Jules de Goncourt
Author: Edmond de Goncourt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French language
Languages : fr
Pages : 364
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French language
Languages : fr
Pages : 364
Book Description
Pages from the Goncourt Journals
Author: Edmond de Goncourt
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 9781590171905
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
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.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 9781590171905
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
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.
Germinie Lacerteux (French Classics)
Author: Edmond De Goncourt
Publisher: Mondial
ISBN: 1595690670
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
In his will, Edmond de Goncourt (1822-1896) left a bequest in honor of his brother Jules de Goncourt (1830-1870) to establish and support a French literary salon, the Academie Goncourt, and later the famous Prix Goncourt, an award that to this day remains France's most significant literary prize. --- The Goncourt brothers, who co-authored a series of novels on social themes, were among the founders of literary "Naturalism" in France. Emile Zola would emerge as this movement's most important representative in his cycle of novels "Les Rougon- Macquart". --- Among the novels co-written by the Goncourt brothers, "Germinie Lacerteux" (1865) is especially noteworthy. The double-live of the novel's Parisian domestic servant, who is ground down and destroyed by the conditions she lives in, but who for decades keeps these conditions hidden from her employer, continues to captivate book-lovers in France and the rest of the world to this day.
Publisher: Mondial
ISBN: 1595690670
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
In his will, Edmond de Goncourt (1822-1896) left a bequest in honor of his brother Jules de Goncourt (1830-1870) to establish and support a French literary salon, the Academie Goncourt, and later the famous Prix Goncourt, an award that to this day remains France's most significant literary prize. --- The Goncourt brothers, who co-authored a series of novels on social themes, were among the founders of literary "Naturalism" in France. Emile Zola would emerge as this movement's most important representative in his cycle of novels "Les Rougon- Macquart". --- Among the novels co-written by the Goncourt brothers, "Germinie Lacerteux" (1865) is especially noteworthy. The double-live of the novel's Parisian domestic servant, who is ground down and destroyed by the conditions she lives in, but who for decades keeps these conditions hidden from her employer, continues to captivate book-lovers in France and the rest of the world to this day.
Edmond and Jules de Goncourt
Author: Marie Belloc Lowndes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Edmond and Jules de Goncourt
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The Journal of the de Goncourts
Author: Edmond de Goncourt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, French
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, French
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Selections from Edmond and Jules de Goncourt
Author: Edmond de Goncourt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French language
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French language
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Renée Mauperin
Author: Edmond de Goncourt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Renée is the spoiled daughter of a respectable, but untitled French family. She eschews convention until the deeds of her brother Henri make her realize the value of propriety.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Renée is the spoiled daughter of a respectable, but untitled French family. She eschews convention until the deeds of her brother Henri make her realize the value of propriety.
French Eighteenth-century Painters
Author: Edmond de Goncourt
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780801492181
Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Donated: Margaret A. Bailey Art Collection.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780801492181
Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Donated: Margaret A. Bailey Art Collection.