Edmond Goncourt
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Edmond Goncourt was a French writer and collaborator with his brother, Jules. Together, they significantly influenced the naturalist novel and excelled in social history and art criticism. Their most enduring legacy is the Journal, a perceptive diary, and the Prix Goncourt, an esteemed French literary award established by Edmond.
The brothers' work, including novels like Germinie Lacerteux, meticulously documented various social strata and relationships, contributing to literary naturalism. They also produced influential art criticism, notably L’Art du dix-huitièmé siècle. Edmond continued their Journal after Jules's death, creating a vast historical record of 19th-century Parisian life.12
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French literatureDiversity among the Realists…documentary presentation of the day-to-day, Edmond and Jules Goncourt, were also the most concerned with that aesthetic perfection of style that Duranty and Champfleury rejected in practice as well as in principle. In the Goncourts’ six jointly written novels that appeared in the 1860s, and in four further novels written…
Read More…documentary presentation of the day-to-day, Edmond and Jules Goncourt, were also the most concerned with that aesthetic perfection of style that Duranty and Champfleury rejected in practice as well as in principle. In the Goncourts’ six jointly written novels that appeared in the 1860s, and in four further novels written…
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realismThe novelThe brothers Jules and Edmond Goncourt were also important realist writers. In their masterpiece, Germinie Lacerteux (1864), and in other works they covered a variety of social and occupational milieus and frankly described social relations among both the upper and the lower classes.
Read MoreThe brothers Jules and Edmond Goncourt were also important realist writers. In their masterpiece, Germinie Lacerteux (1864), and in other works they covered a variety of social and occupational milieus and frankly described social relations among both the upper and the lower classes.
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