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Tag Archives: Goncourt Journal
dual diction
The massive, gossipy Journal of the Goncourt brothers is one of the longest, most absorbing, and perhaps the most enlightening diary in European literature. It is the brilliantly observed, vividly recorded details that make the essential merit of the Goncourt … Continue reading
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Tagged Aby Warburg, Edmond Goncourt, Emile Zola, Goncourt Brothers, Goncourt Journal, Gustave Dore, James Tissot, Jules Goncourt, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Robert Baldwin, Samuel Pepys, William Hickey
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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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Tagged Alexandre Dumas, Algernon Swinburne, Edmond Goncourt, Emile Zola, ernest renan, Geoff Dyer Guardian, Goncourt Brthers, Goncourt Journal, Gustave Faubert, Guy de Maupassant, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Jules and Edmond Goncourt, Jules Goncourt, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Proust, Robert Baldick
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