Journal des Goncourt (Troisième série, premier volume) by Goncourt and Goncourt

"Journal des Goncourt (Troisième série, premier volume)" by Goncourt and Goncourt is a diary written between 1850 and 1896. Brothers Edmond and Jules de Goncourt chronicle the bitter rivalries and fragile friendships of literary Paris through candid observations recorded late at night. Their unflinching portraits of famous contemporaries—including Flaubert, Zola, and Daudet—reveal jealousies, borrowed ideas, and disappointments. After Jules's death from syphilis, Edmond continues alone, documenting war and siege. This uncensored chronicle of artistic life sparked outrage and strained friendships when published. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Goncourt, Edmond de, 1822-1896
Author Goncourt, Jules de, 1830-1870
Title Journal des Goncourt (Troisième série, premier volume)
Mémoires de la vie littéraire
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goncourt_Journal
Credits Produced by Carlo Traverso, Mireille Harmelin and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team of Europe. This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at gallica.bnf.fr
Reading Level Reading ease score: 75.1 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language French
LoC Class PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Subject Novelists, French -- 19th century -- Diaries
Subject Goncourt, Edmond de, 1822-1896 -- Diaries
Subject Goncourt, Jules de, 1830-1870 -- Diaries
Subject Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
Subject Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
Category Text
eBook-No. 17746
Release Date
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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