Paperback, 310 pages

Published 1996 by De Arbeiderspers.

ISBN:
978-90-295-1652-5
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Keuze uit de dagboeken van de Franse letterkundige broers Edmond (1822-1896) en Jules (1830-1870) de Goncourt.

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reviewed God, geld en seks by Edmond de Goncourt (Privédomein)

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The dairy written by brothers Edmond (1822-1896) and Jules (1830-1870) de Goncourt – now best known as the namesakes of France’s most prestigious literary prize, as well as a street and metro station in Paris – has become a cherished chronicle of 19th-century artistic and literary Paris.

Although they lived through turbulent times – the diary was written during the Second French Empire and the Third Republic – the brothers offer little reflection on political or social conflicts. Instead, they primarily produce gossip, focusing on their own circles, which include figures who now lend their names to half of today’s Parisian street directory. Among them are celebrated French authors such as Alexandre Dumas, Émile Zola, George Sand, Gustave Flaubert, and Victor Hugo, as well as foreign figures like Ivan Turgenev and Oscar Wilde.

Given my general scepticism toward navel-gazing literary circles, I probably should not have picked up this book …