The Goncourt Journals (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Edmond de Goncourt, Jules de Goncourt
- Genres: Nonfiction, Diary, History
- Subjects: France or French people, Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Literature, Poetry or poets, Novelists, Drama or dramatists, Dinners or dining
Critical Evaluation:
The Goncourt Journals were begun on December 2, 1851, the day on which Louis-Napoleon dissolved the National Assembly and made himself dictator, as a first step toward becoming Emperor of the French. The journals span the years of the Second Empire in France.
It was the intention of Edmond and Jules de Goncourt to capture and record “momentary reality” in their journals. They carefully noted their impressions and the actual words of men of their time. As in their realistic novels they tried to be objective, so in their journals they claim...
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