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acts of despair in the face of infinity

“Debauchery,” the Goncourts wrote in 1861,”is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.” …The Goncourts wrote prolifically in every genre, but they never had the kind of success they so desperately wanted. They were less admired than … Continue reading

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goncourt: red-hot scalpel

The bothers Goncourt, Edmond and Jules, were nobly born. They were rich. But they had the misfortune to be intelligent. Therefore, they were unhappy. They wanted to be famous; they longed to be eminent authors, princes in the realm of … Continue reading

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ROCK THEIR GYPSY SOUL

Wordsworth called the Gypsies “wild outcasts of society.” In the folklore of he nineteenth and twentieth centuries, they appear mainly in the guise of dark-haired, mysterious fortunetellers and colorfully dressed violinists, ready to break into song at the drop of … Continue reading

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