Jules de Goncourt

Edmond 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.

Pages from the Goncourt Journals

Voici l'histoire de la splendeur et de la décadence d'un homme de lettres et d'un homme du siècle, Charles Demailly, triste héros qui, après avoir tenté trois fois sa chance, dans le journalisme, la littérature et le mariage, finit son existence dans un asile de fous. Dans ce roman à clés paru en 1860, les frères Goncourt s'attaquent à la bohème littéraire, incarnée par la presse à scandale - ce " monde carotteur de la pièce de cinq francs ", affairiste et malhonnête, qu'ils dénoncent dans leur journal. En mettant en scène, sous des noms d'emprunt, leurs contemporains - Théodore de Banville, Théophile Gautier, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly ou encore Gustave Flaubert -, ils nous plongent dans l'intimité d'un cercle de lettrés. Ils dressent, enfin, une véritable cartographie du plaisir parisien, et nous promènent dans les théâtres, les bals et les cafés, partout où règne la " blague ", parole vide et gonflée d'air comme la blague à tabac qui lui a donné son nom. Si Charles Demailly déchaîna les foudres des critiques - Adolphe Gaïffe s'opposa à sa parution, " au nom de l'honneur des lettres et de la considération du journalisme " -, il n'en demeure pas moins une pièce fondatrice de l'œuvre des Goncourt. Ainsi que l'écrivait George Sand aux deux frères : " Votre livre est très beau, et vous avez un grand, un énorme talent. "

Charles Demailly

La donna nel XVIII secolo

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Lettres de Jules de Goncourt

Lettres

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

The Woman of the Eighteenth Century

Love in the Eighteenth Century

La modelo, Manette Salomon

Journal; mémoires de la vie littéraire

Reprint of the original, first published in 1898. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the public in good condition in order to preserve their cultural heritage.

Selections from Edmond and 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.

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

Pages from a Great Diary, Being Extracts from the Journal Des Goncourt

The Journal of the de Goncourts

Pages from the Goncourt Journal

Notes on the censorship trial of the Goncourt brothers in 1853

The Goncourt Journals, 1851-1870

From the Goncourt Journal

Paris and the Arts, 1851-1896

Goncourt Journal

Die Frau im 18. Jahrhundert

Jules de Goncourt

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